{"id":96,"date":"2026-06-27T17:43:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T16:43:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/?p=96"},"modified":"2026-06-28T20:07:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-28T19:07:11","slug":"potatoes-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/potatoes-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Potatoes 14."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When most people think of potatoes they only really think of the brown potato (I guess) shaped things. But they are flowering plants.\u00a0 A few posts ago we mentioned the flower buds. Here we have a picture of the flowers after they have opened.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-91\" src=\"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/potato-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"Potato Flowers\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Our potato&#8217;s have flowers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to legend King Loius XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France were given some potato flowers and they liked them so much the king wore one as a buttonhole and the queen put some in her hair. So what do you think, cute or ugly?<\/p>\n<p>The flowers can lead to the production of fruit, they look a little like tomatoes (with them being related) but they are seriously toxic. Don&#8217;t eat them they&#8217;ll make you ill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When most people think of potatoes they only really think of the brown potato (I guess) shaped things. But they are flowering plants.\u00a0 A few posts ago we mentioned the flower buds. Here we have a picture of the flowers after they have opened. According to legend King Loius XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/2026\/06\/27\/potatoes-14\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Potatoes 14.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owlbear.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}