{"id":4217,"date":"2011-04-07T17:55:25","date_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/beavertail-cactus-flower\/"},"modified":"2011-04-07T17:55:25","modified_gmt":"2011-04-08T00:55:25","slug":"beavertail-cactus-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/04\/07\/beavertail-cactus-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"Beavertail Cactus Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/beavertail-bud.jpg' title='beavertail-bud.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/beavertail-bud.jpg' alt='beavertail-bud.jpg' class='right' width='350' \/><\/a>Last month, we transported several of our California cactus collection to Arizona. My beavertail cactus (<em>opuntia basilaris<\/em> &#8211; thanks <strong>Crotalus<\/strong> \ud83d\ude09 ) was among those we brought. Today, the first of several flower buds opened.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Cactaceae\/Opuntia_basilaris.html\">Desert Tropicals<\/a>, beavertail is a smaller prickly pear cactus, and it will often start blooming when it has only two pads. In the wild, its principal range is limited to the Mojave-Colorado desert. The cactus ranges in the southwest USA (Arizona, California, Nevada) from 200 to 3000 feet elevation.<\/p>\n<p>We will get this cactus transplanted into the rock and cactus garden next week. Meanwhile, enjoy the pretty flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month, we transported several of our California cactus collection to Arizona. My beavertail cactus (opuntia basilaris &#8211; thanks Crotalus \ud83d\ude09 ) was among those we&#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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-home-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217","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=4217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}