{"id":4300,"date":"2011-05-16T19:36:53","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T02:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/barrel-cactus-flowers\/"},"modified":"2011-05-17T18:37:35","modified_gmt":"2011-05-18T01:37:35","slug":"barrel-cactus-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2011\/05\/16\/barrel-cactus-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Barrel Cactus Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted these flowers on a barrel cactus up the slope on the neighbor&#8217;s property. I had the wrong shoes on to go up the slope to get a photo, so Bob climbed up and took this photo. I&#8217;m not sure of the exact species of this ferocactus, although it might be F. wislizeni. For sure, it sure has pretty flowers. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Update: Crotalus told us the variety of this cactus  in comments . . .<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This is Ferocactus cylindraceus, the California or Compass Barrel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thanks, Crotalus!<\/p>\n<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fish-hook.jpg' title='fish-hook.jpg'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/fish-hook.jpg' alt='fish-hook.jpg' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I spotted these flowers on a barrel cactus up the slope on the neighbor&#8217;s property. I had the wrong shoes on to go up the slope&#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-4300","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\/4300","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=4300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}