{"id":10744,"date":"2025-04-15T17:53:12","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:53:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=10744"},"modified":"2025-04-15T17:53:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T00:53:12","slug":"cherry-red-cactus-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2025\/04\/15\/cherry-red-cactus-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Cherry Red&#8221; Cactus Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250415-trichocereus-flower.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250415-trichocereus-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10747\" srcset=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250415-trichocereus-flower.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250415-trichocereus-flower-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250415-trichocereus-flower-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250415-trichocereus-flower-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Cherry Red (or sometimes Red Torch) flowers are starting to open in the courtyard. This is the first of the spring season. There are buds on several of the cacti and we&#8217;re expecting more soon. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"https:\/\/plantquility.com\/blogs\/plant-care-guide\/torch-cactus-plant-care-guide\" target=\"_blank\">Trichocereus Grandiflorus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Torch Cactus (Trichocereus grandiflorus) is a species of cactus from the Patagonian Desert in Argentina. The Torch Cactus is notable for its huge display of dramatic red colored flowers that open in late spring. When adult Torch Cactus flower they can often produce displays of flowers that cover the top of the plant and can look like a carpet of red flowers from above.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Cherry Red (or sometimes Red Torch) flowers are starting to open in the courtyard. This is the first of the spring season. There are buds&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10744"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10749,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10744\/revisions\/10749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}