{"id":13856,"date":"2025-11-23T11:49:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13856"},"modified":"2025-11-23T11:49:35","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T03:49:35","slug":"byte-size-plants-singapore-herbarium-goes-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=13856","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Byte-size\u2019 plants: Singapore Herbarium goes online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!--[--><!----><!--[--><\/p>\n<p><!--[!--><!--[--><\/p>\n<figure class=\"figure photo left svelte-qh1im8\"><!--[--><!--[--><!--[!--><!--[!--><!--]--><!--]--><!--]--><!----><!--]--> <!--[--><!--[--><figcaption class=\"caption svelte-qh1im8\"><!---->This specimen of sea hibiscus (<em>Hibiscus tiliaceus<\/em>) is one of the oldest specimens in the Singapore Herbarium\u2019s collection, dating back to 1793. It was collected from Tamil Nadu, India. This species is a common coastal and back mangrove plant of tropical areas, and can also be found on Singapore\u2019s shores.<!----> <!--[!--><!--]--><\/figcaption><!--]--><!--]--><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"figure photo left svelte-qh1im8\"><!--[--><!--[--><!--[!--><!--[!--><!--]--><!--]--><!--]--><!----><!--]--> <!--[--><!--[--><figcaption class=\"caption svelte-qh1im8\"><!---->This specimen of <em>Indigofera filiformis<\/em> dates back even further, to 1790. It was collected from Tamil Nadu, India. This species is related to the indigo plant, which is used to produce indigo dye.<!----> <!--[!--><!--]--><\/figcaption><!--]--><!--]--><\/figure>\n<p><!--]--><!--]--><\/p>\n<p><!--]--><!----><!--]--><!----><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/multimedia\/graphics\/2025\/11\/herbarium-plants-digitise-singapore\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This specimen of sea hibiscus (Hibiscus tiliaceus) is one of the oldest specimens in the Singapore Herbarium\u2019s collection, dating back to 1793. It was collected&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2611],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-headlines","wpcat-2611-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}