{"id":20452,"date":"2018-12-19T11:24:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=20452"},"modified":"2018-12-19T11:24:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-19T10:24:45","slug":"the-silk-oak-quercus-mongolica","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=20452","title":{"rendered":"The Silk Oak: Quercus mongolica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Quercus mongolica<\/em> (Mongolian oak or the Shandong silk oak)! Did you know that the Chinese not only produce silk from mulberry trees, but also from Mongolian oak trees? The Chinese oak silkworm, <em>Antheraea pernyi<\/em>, is the worker employed according to Food Plants of China! See\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/jinsectscience\/article\/10\/1\/180\/887115?fbclid=IwAR08ElXK7q0iY2hkw2XnP5F4HXaTdIUhQQB_WeWGX9DtPM4oWhsG4NOBTV0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-lynx-mode=\"asynclazy\" data-lynx-uri=\"https:\/\/l.facebook.com\/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Facademic.oup.com%2Fjinsectscience%2Farticle%2F10%2F1%2F180%2F887115%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR08ElXK7q0iY2hkw2XnP5F4HXaTdIUhQQB_WeWGX9DtPM4oWhsG4NOBTV0&amp;h=AT3VooHcHOqRRbNBqRN0BcoqdmhzSiUiRq1m1HCkKL_ZEtuflrnQjaBoa2Xew6fpHMyJODWLmLVuFrNF72fGiAGH9P6avDxGbVbS7B7UfgiuDdyhwrxrtJ67AtuQaare5Ek20Mk\">https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/<wbr \/>jinsectscience\/article\/10\/<wbr \/>1\/180\/887115<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Mongolian oak nuts were also sometimes eaten and the leaves were used for tea, boiled with the fruits of Siberian crabapple, <em>Malus baccata<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20453\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140622.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140622.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140622-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140622-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-20454\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140624.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"632\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140624.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140624-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/P1140624-300x400.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quercus mongolica (Mongolian oak or the Shandong silk oak)! Did you know that the Chinese not only produce silk from mulberry trees, but also from Mongolian oak trees? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[346,64,1462,3332],"tags":[3335,3336,3333,3334],"class_list":["post-20452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fibre-plant","category-fruit","category-nut-trees","category-tea-plants","tag-antheraea-pernyi","tag-malus-baccata","tag-quercus-mongolica","tag-shandong-silk-oak"],"views":3210,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20455,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20452\/revisions\/20455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}