{"id":32015,"date":"2024-03-21T16:36:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=32015"},"modified":"2024-03-21T16:36:41","modified_gmt":"2024-03-21T15:36:41","slug":"root-hairs-and-burdock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/?p=32015","title":{"rendered":"Root hairs and burdock"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used some burdock \/ borre root (<em>Arctium lappa<\/em>) in an oriental stir-fry the other day. They&#8217;ve been stored in autumn leaves in the cold cellar since autumn and now with the temperature increasing, the roots had developed many white root hairs. Their function is to dramatically increase the root surface area and hence interface with the soil, and hence enhancing the absorption of water and minerals.<br \/><br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32017\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186897.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"349\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186897.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186897-300x105.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186897-768x268.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186897-640x223.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32018\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186893.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186893.jpg 800w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186893-300x219.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186893-768x560.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186893-640x466.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32016\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186898.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"756\" height=\"358\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186898.jpg 756w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186898-300x142.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/P3186898-640x303.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used some burdock \/ borre root (Arctium lappa) in an oriental stir-fry the other day. They&#8217;ve been stored in autumn leaves in the cold cellar since autumn [&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":[16],"tags":[1930,404,5019,5018,4734],"class_list":["post-32015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-root-crops","tag-arctium-lappa","tag-burdock","tag-oriental-stir-fry","tag-root-store","tag-storborre"],"views":1366,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015","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=32015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32019,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32015\/revisions\/32019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.edimentals.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}