{"id":5651,"date":"2013-04-15T19:31:55","date_gmt":"2013-04-16T02:31:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/flowering-cholla-cactus\/"},"modified":"2013-04-15T19:31:55","modified_gmt":"2013-04-16T02:31:55","slug":"flowering-cholla-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/flowering-cholla-cactus\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowering Cholla Cactus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/flowering-cholla-cactus.jpg' title='Flowering Cholla Cactus'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/flowering-cholla-cactus.jpg' alt='Flowering Cholla Cactus' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We stopped on the way back from a visit to Mom at the retirement ranch and I took this photo of a flowering buckhorn cholla. This one has many blooms on it. The buckhorn cholla in and around our yard have a few open flowers, but not as many as this one. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Snippet from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enature.com\/fieldguides\/detail.asp?recNum=WF1817\">eNature.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Opuntia acanthocarpa &#8211; buckhorn cholla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main trunk of this tree-like cactus is short and erect; branching open and low to ground. Branches are cylindrical; the joints light green.<\/p>\n<p>Habit: native perennial shrub; succulent stems, in segments 4-20 in (10-50 cm) tall by 0.75-1.25 in (2-3 cm) diameter; new growth is gray-green to purple-green; old growth has rough, scaly, brownish black bark.<\/p>\n<p>Flower: delicate, lemon yellow to copper to red to pink, 2-3 in (5-7.5 cm) wide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We stopped on the way back from a visit to Mom at the retirement ranch and I took this photo of a flowering buckhorn cholla. This&#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":[70,72,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651","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=5651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}