{"id":238,"date":"2008-08-26T09:20:37","date_gmt":"2008-08-26T13:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/?p=238"},"modified":"2011-04-15T03:02:37","modified_gmt":"2011-04-15T07:02:37","slug":"quick-facts-on-jamaica-national-flower-lignum-vitae-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/quick-facts-on-jamaica-national-flower-lignum-vitae-tree\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick Facts on Jamaica &#8211; National Flower Lignum Vitae tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>The National Flower is that of the <strong>Lignum Vitae tree (Guiacum officinale)<\/strong>, whose name, &#8216;wood of life&#8217; is believed to reflect its medicinal properties. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Lignum vitae<\/strong> is a trade\u00a0<a title=\"Wood\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Wood\" target=\"_blank\">wood<\/a>, also called\u00a0<strong>guayacan<\/strong> or\u00a0<strong>guaiacum<\/strong>,<sup id=\"cite_ref-0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lignum_vitae#cite_note-0\" target=\"_blank\">[1]<\/a><\/sup> and in parts of Europe known as\u00a0<strong>pockenholz<\/strong>, from trees of the genus\u00a0<em><a title=\"Guaiacum\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guaiacum\" target=\"_blank\">Guaiacum<\/a><\/em>. This wood was once very important for applications requiring a material with its extraordinary combination of\u00a0<a title=\"Strength of materials\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strength_of_materials\" target=\"_blank\">strength<\/a>,\u00a0<a title=\"Toughness\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Toughness\" target=\"_blank\">toughness<\/a> and\u00a0<a title=\"density\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Density\" target=\"_blank\">density<\/a>. It is also the Jamaican national flower.<span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"> wikipedia<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jamaican-lignumvitae.jpg\" alt=\"jamaican-lignumvitae.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"GET Your Website Hosted with Hostgator No $3.96 Unlimited Bandwidth\" onmouseover=\"window.status='http:\/\/www.hostgator.com';return true;\" onmouseout=\"window.status=' ';return true;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.kqzyfj.com\/click-5237320-10854111\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tqlkg.com\/image-5237320-10854111\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Flower is that of the Lignum Vitae tree (Guiacum officinale), whose name, &#8216;wood of life&#8217; is believed to reflect its medicinal properties. Lignum vitae is a trade\u00a0wood, also called\u00a0guayacan or\u00a0guaiacum,[1] and in parts of Europe known as\u00a0pockenholz, from trees of the genus\u00a0Guaiacum. This wood was once very important for applications requiring a material [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[258,255,256,257,259],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-jamaican-history","tag-guiacum-officinale","tag-jamaica","tag-jamaica-national-flower-lignum-vitae-tree","tag-lignum-vitae-tree","tag-wood-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eyoungwon.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}