{"id":5107,"date":"2021-07-30T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/?p=5107"},"modified":"2021-07-30T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2021-07-30T22:27:19","slug":"tithonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/30\/tithonia\/","title":{"rendered":"Tithonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tithonia is also known as \u201cMexican Sunflower.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is a fun flower to photograph. Its color is vivid. The blooms appear on gracefully curved stems. It attracts a variety of pollinators. It does make a few seeds for the birds, but not in the same quantity as regular sunflowers.<\/p>\n<p>This is my first bloom of tithonia this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5106\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5106\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6921D6FF-7939-4535-B64A-3D3E8F6E555D-2-1024x970.jpeg\" alt=\"Tithonia\" width=\"600\" height=\"568\" class=\"size-large wp-image-5106\" srcset=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6921D6FF-7939-4535-B64A-3D3E8F6E555D-2-1024x970.jpeg 1024w, http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6921D6FF-7939-4535-B64A-3D3E8F6E555D-2-300x284.jpeg 300w, http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6921D6FF-7939-4535-B64A-3D3E8F6E555D-2-768x727.jpeg 768w, http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6921D6FF-7939-4535-B64A-3D3E8F6E555D-2-1536x1455.jpeg 1536w, http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6921D6FF-7939-4535-B64A-3D3E8F6E555D-2-2048x1940.jpeg 2048w, http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/6921D6FF-7939-4535-B64A-3D3E8F6E555D-2-400x379.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5106\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tithonia, \u201cMexican Sunflower\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fcbkbttn_like fcbkbttn_large_button\"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/30\/tithonia\/\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\" layout=\"button_count\"  size=\"large\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/30\/tithonia\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tithonia is also known as \u201cMexican Sunflower.\u201d This is a fun flower to photograph. 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This is my first bloom of &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/30\/tithonia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Tithonia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,593,1],"tags":[13,122,696,596],"series":[],"class_list":["post-5107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flowers","category-tithonia","category-uncategorized","tag-flowers-2","tag-flowers-that-attract-bees","tag-hi","tag-tithonia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tithonia - Susan Brandt Graham Photography<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/susanbgraham.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/30\/tithonia\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tithonia - Susan Brandt Graham Photography\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tithonia is also known as \u201cMexican Sunflower.\u201d This is a fun flower to photograph. 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