{"id":29987,"date":"2023-10-25T10:15:12","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T17:15:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/?post_type=product&#038;p=29987"},"modified":"2025-11-03T08:18:38","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T16:18:38","slug":"choisya-ternata-sundance-mexican-orange-blossom","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/shop\/choisya-ternata-sundance-mexican-orange-blossom\/","title":{"rendered":"Choisya ternata &#8216;Sundance&#8217; (Mexican orange blossom)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Choisya ternata\u00a0<\/em>was named to honor the Swiss Protestant clergyman and botanist, Jacques Denis Choisy,\u00a0with\u00a0<em>ternata<\/em> being a reference to the leaf clusters that appear in threes. A native shrub of the southwest USA and Mexico. Its common name, Mexican Orange, refers to the orange fragrance emitted from the flowers and crushed leaves. <em>Sundance<\/em> has golden-yellow foliage on new growth, then yellow or even yellow-green or light green if grown in the shade. Full sun may burn the leaves of this variety. Grows slower than the species, to 5 , and produces the usual fragrant flowers. Plant in humusy, moist, well-drained soils and prune after flowering for possible additional blooms. Once established it is moderately drought tolerant. Hardy to Zones 7-10. Photo courtesy of Oregon State.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Choisya-Sundance-FC.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-30815\" src=\"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Choisya-Sundance-FC-1024x488.jpg\" alt=\"Choisya Sundance-FC\" width=\"1024\" height=\"488\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Choisya-Sundance-FC-1024x488.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Choisya-Sundance-FC-300x143.jpg 300w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Choisya-Sundance-FC-768x366.jpg 768w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Choisya-Sundance-FC-1536x731.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Choisya-Sundance-FC-700x333.jpg 700w, https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Choisya-Sundance-FC.jpg 1575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Choisya ternata\u00a0was named to honor the Swiss Protestant clergyman and botanist, Jacques Denis Choisy,\u00a0with\u00a0ternata being a reference to the leaf clusters that appear in threes. A native shrub of the southwest USA and Mexico. Its common name, Mexican Orange, refers to the orange fragrance emitted from the flowers and crushed leaves. Sundance has golden-yellow foliage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":29988,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[1887],"product_tag":[1849,1544],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/29987"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=29987"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loghouseplants.com\/plants\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=29987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}