{"id":11282,"date":"2022-09-04T10:48:27","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T08:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/?p=11282"},"modified":"2022-09-04T10:48:52","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T08:48:52","slug":"caminito-del-rey-la-curiosa-planta-del-matagallo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/caminito-del-rey-la-curiosa-planta-del-matagallo\/","title":{"rendered":"Caminito del Rey: The curious matagallo plant\u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The matagallo is a shrub between 0.5 and 2 metres tall, with vertical branches covered in whitish hairs. It has a simple, oval-shaped leaf that narrows at its tip. The flowers grow in clusters around the base and are lilac, white, or pink. It is a very hardy and tolerant plant that will grow in many climatic conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uses:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flowers provide us with a sweetish nectar, which is used as a supplement in syrups and cough medicines. The properties of this plant were well-known and used in rural areas for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks to the texture of its leaves and its aroma, it was used as a skin exfoliant and a natural deodorant. It was also used as a scouring pad for washing dishes, a substitute for the paper wicks on oil lamps (candles), and many farmworkers, in the absence of paper, used this plant as toilet paper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>El matagallo es un arbusto de entre 0,5 a 2 metros de altura, con ramas verticales cubiertas de pelillos blaquecinos.Tiene una hoja simple, de forma ovalada que se estrecha en su extremo.Las flores se agrupan alrededor de la base y son de color lila,blanco o rosa.Es una planta muy resistente y tolerante que crecer\u00e1 en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":11283,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flora-del-caminito-del-rey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/imagen-matagallo.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9kfvu-2VY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11282"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11284,"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11282\/revisions\/11284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aloratur.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}