{"id":4249,"date":"2024-05-02T14:16:14","date_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/?p=4249"},"modified":"2024-05-02T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T04:16:14","slug":"the-mighty-manna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2024\/05\/02\/the-mighty-manna\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mighty Manna."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As well as the new trees in Bellbird Corner Reserve there are some fine old trees, one of which is a Manna Gum, Eucalyptus viminalis, growing beside the old road, and what a survivor it is. The first photo shows it in April 2005 with the upper story quite dead, but otherwise still very healthy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix33\/manna1.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"933\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three years later, in April 2008, possibly in response to wind, most of the top story and part of the canopy came to earth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix33\/down.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"525\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This mighty old tree merely shrugged this calamity off and got on with living and growing. Sixteen years later, here is the trunk showing some of that growth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix33\/trunk.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"1027\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here is the trunk from the other side, measuring 7.5 metres circumference at chest height.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix33\/butt.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"1031\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s the tree standing proudly today, measuring twenty six metres tall.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bencruachan.org\/naturality\/pix33\/mannagum.jpg\" width=\"700\" height=\"776\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as the new trees in Bellbird Corner Reserve there are some fine old trees, one of which is a Manna Gum, Eucalyptus viminalis, growing beside the old road, and what a survivor it is. The first photo shows it in April 2005 with the upper story quite dead, but otherwise still very healthy. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/2024\/05\/02\/the-mighty-manna\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mighty Manna.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-nature"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4258,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions\/4258"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bencruachan.org\/naturality\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}