{"id":5126,"date":"2012-07-17T15:46:16","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/carrion-flower-in-the-desert\/"},"modified":"2012-07-17T15:46:16","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T22:46:16","slug":"carrion-flower-in-the-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2012\/07\/17\/carrion-flower-in-the-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"Carrion Flower in the Desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stapelia-gigantea.jpg' title='Carrion Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stapelia-gigantea.jpg' alt='stapelia-gigantea.jpg' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We brought one of our stapelia gigantea plants from California to the Arizona High Desert. I didn&#8217;t know if this south African succulent would like the climate here, but apparently it is OK. Damsel discovered the open flower this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Last week we found that the stapelia had two flower pods. One pod fizzled but the other <a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stapelia.jpg' title='stapelia.jpg'>flower pod<\/a> is now open.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/davesgarden.com\/pf\/go\/2273\/index.html\">Dave&#8217;s Garden<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Stapelia gigantea<\/strong> &#8212; Interesting succulent, olive green and erect. Lots of branches. 4-sided spineless stems average up to 9 inches and about 1 inch thick. Cactus-like appearance. <\/p>\n<p>Grown mostly for the starfish-shaped flower. Flowers are pale yellow with reddish stripes, covered with white hairs. Flower can average 8 to 12 inches across. It is said to look flesh-like, also reported to have a rotting meat odor, which attracts its main visitor, the fly, for pollinating<\/p>\n<p>This plant which is usually grown in pots is known by several common names which include the following: starfish flower, Zulu-giant, carrion flower and giant toad. It is native to southern Africa and Mozambique. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>By the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/davesgarden.com\/\">Dave&#8217;s Garden<\/a> is one valuable resource when trying to learn about plants and flowers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We brought one of our stapelia gigantea plants from California to the Arizona High Desert. I didn&#8217;t know if this south African succulent would like the&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"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-5126","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\/5126","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\/190"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}