{"id":83,"date":"2016-08-02T15:32:08","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sycamore.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2016-08-02T16:58:30","modified_gmt":"2016-08-02T16:58:30","slug":"news","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/news\/","title":{"rendered":"News"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n Exploring the Mountains of Eastern Cuba, Part I \n <\/h2>\n <\/a>\n
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A recent expedition to eastern Cuba took three Cuban colleagues and me from the coast to\u00a0the cloud forests in search of rare and locally restricted species in the plant family\u00a0known as princess flower or\u00a0meadow beauty. The species\u00a0in this family\u00a0(whose scientific … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n <\/div>\n