{"id":85,"date":"2016-08-02T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2016-08-02T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sycamore.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/?p=85"},"modified":"2016-08-15T12:49:24","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T12:49:24","slug":"eastern-cuba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/eastern-cuba\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the Mountains of Eastern Cuba Part 3"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In this last post<\/a> about Cuban Johnny berries and meadow beauties, I want to show some of the species found in the northeastern part of the island. The mountain ranges in this area\u2014the Sierra de Moa, Baracoa, Nipe and Cristal\u2014are all rich in minerals and have unique soils that contain high concentrations of metals. These metals are toxic for many plants, but this plant family, the Melastomataceae, has adapted to these conditions.<\/p>\n

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Ossaea moaensis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Ossaea pauciflora<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Calycogonium glabratum<\/em>, Miconia baracosensis<\/em>, Miconia uninervis<\/em>, Ossaea moensis<\/em>, andOssaea puciflora<\/em> are not closely related, but they have all evolved small, hard leaves as an adaptation to the high toxicity of the soils they inhabit.
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In this last post about Cuban Johnny berries and meadow beauties, I want to show some of the species found in the northeastern part of the island. The mountain ranges in this area\u2014the Sierra de Moa, Baracoa, Nipe and Cristal\u2014are … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115,"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sweetgum.nybg.org\/science\/projects\/melastomataceae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}