{"id":217,"date":"2014-07-03T14:36:22","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T20:36:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=217"},"modified":"2015-05-06T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T14:00:05","slug":"eastern-hemlock-tsuga-canadensis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=217","title":{"rendered":"Eastern hemlock <em>(Tsuga canadensis)<\/em>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_218\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eastern_hemlock_02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-218\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eastern_hemlock_02-300x198.jpg\" alt=\"eastern hemlock\" width=\"300\" height=\"198\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eastern_hemlock_02-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eastern_hemlock_02-624x412.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/eastern_hemlock_02.jpg 720w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Laurie Grimm<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Eastern hemlock <em>(Tsuga canadensis)<\/em> is rare and imperiled in Minnesota. There are only 10 known sites in Minnesota where the tree occurs naturally (not planted). This is a long-lived tree, lasting 500 years or more, but it is very slow growing and it seldom regenerates. The root system is shallow, which makes mature trees vulnerable to windthrow. Young trees are vulnerable to deer predation. Old trees are vulnerable to beavers, which sometimes girdle hemlocks to kill them and make room for more desirable trees. The species is also susceptible to\u00a0the invasive hemlock woolly adelgid.\u00a0Hemlock woolly adelgid commonly causes 70% to 80% mortality, and sometimes 100% mortality, among the hemlocks in forest stands in New England.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/eastern_hemlock.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/eastern_hemlock.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.minnesotaseasons.com\/Plants\/eastern_hemlock.html<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like \"><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/?p=217\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"small\"><\/fb:like><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern hemlock (Tsuga canadensis) is rare and imperiled in Minnesota. There are only 10 known sites in Minnesota where the tree occurs naturally (not planted). This is a long-lived tree, lasting 500 years or more, but it is very slow growing and it seldom regenerates. The root system is shallow, which makes mature trees vulnerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[56,57],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.minnesotaseasons.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}