{"id":83797,"date":"2016-12-16T02:18:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T07:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=83797"},"modified":"2016-12-16T02:18:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T07:18:59","slug":"rare-plant-named-rock-guitarist-jimi-hendrix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2016\/12\/16\/rare-plant-named-rock-guitarist-jimi-hendrix\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare plant named after rock guitarist Jimi Hendrix"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_83799\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-83799\" style=\"width: 422px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Jimi-Hendrix.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-83799\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Jimi-Hendrix.jpg\" alt=\"Jimi Hendrix (Flickr Photo)\" width=\"422\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Jimi-Hendrix.jpg 422w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/Jimi-Hendrix-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-83799\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jimi Hendrix (Flickr Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SAN DIEGO\u2014California researchers have named a newly discovered rare plant after Jimi Hendrix.<\/p>\n<p>The plant, found in Baja California, Mexico, has been christened Dudleya hendrixii , or \u201cHendrix&#8217;s liveforever.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Liveforevers are a kind of succulent with enormous lifespans.<\/p>\n<p>This one is a stalky plant less than a foot tall with pinkish-white flowers that dies in summer and re-sprouts in fall.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego State University says a former graduate student, Mark Dodero, discovered the plant\u2014supposedly while listening to Hendrix&#8217;s song \u201cVoodoo Child.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The university says Dodero and Stephen McCabe of the University of California, Santa Cruz, decided to name it for the late rock guitarist.<\/p>\n<p>However, unlike Hendrix&#8217;s music, the plant is in peril. San Diego State says its two-acre habitat is threatened by farming, off-road vehicles and development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN DIEGO\u2014California researchers have named a newly discovered rare plant after Jimi Hendrix. The plant, found in Baja California, Mexico, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":83799,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[12931,12932,12933,12930,12934],"class_list":["post-83797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","tag-baja-california","tag-dudleya-hendrixii","tag-hendrixs-liveforever","tag-jimi-hendrix","tag-voodoo-child","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}