{"id":3583,"date":"2010-06-18T18:04:53","date_gmt":"2010-06-19T01:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/pencil-cholla-cactus\/"},"modified":"2010-06-18T18:04:53","modified_gmt":"2010-06-19T01:04:53","slug":"pencil-cholla-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2010\/06\/18\/pencil-cholla-cactus\/","title":{"rendered":"Pencil Cholla Cactus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pencil-cholla.jpg' title='pencil-cholla.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/pencil-cholla.jpg' alt='pencil-cholla.jpg' width='320' class='right' \/><\/a>I can honestly say that this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/891\/cylindropuntia-arbuscula-arizona-pencil-cholla\/\">Pencil Cholla Cactus<\/a> is growing in our back yard. Not our yard in California, of course, but on our recently purchased Arizona property. I took this photo on June 10th while we were on the property talking to our contractor about the placement of the house and RV pad.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Cactaceae\/Opuntia_leptocaulis.html\">Desert Tropicals<\/a>, <strong>Pencil Cholla<\/strong> is also called the <strong>Desert Christmas Cactus<\/strong> due to its olive-sized red fruit that appears in December. The tiny flowers appear in the spring months and disappear in summer. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m really looking forward to having a cactus garden at the new place including this Pencil Cholla and one or two Palo Verde trees already on the property. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can honestly say that this Pencil Cholla Cactus is growing in our back yard. Not our yard in California, of course, but on our recently&#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":[70,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583","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=3583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}