{"id":601,"date":"2006-08-10T05:46:15","date_gmt":"2006-08-10T12:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=601"},"modified":"2007-02-02T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T18:10:50","slug":"flowers-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2006\/08\/10\/flowers-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Flowers of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <strong>cereus cactii<\/strong> varieties bear their <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/?p=599\">flowers in the night<\/a>, most varieties of barrel cactii produce flowers that open to the sun&#8217;s rays and close before sundown. They often open for several days in a row before withering.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Cactaceae\/Ferocactus_latispinus.html\">Devil&#8217;s Tongue Barrel or Crow&#8217;s Claw Cactus<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cactusweb.us\/ferocactus_latispinus01.html\">pinkish purple<\/a> or yellow flowers, 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter (2.5 to 3.5 cm). <em>Ferocactus latispinus<\/em>, as this variety is known, is fairly popular in cultivation because it blooms very early, many young plants will bloom when they reach 4 inches in diameter (10 cm). The cactus that produced this flower is about the size of a basketball, 10 inches in diameter (25 cm).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-images\/0608\/dayflower.jpg\" class=\"centered\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While cereus cactii varieties bear their flowers in the night, most varieties of barrel cactii produce flowers that open to the sun&#8217;s rays and close before&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-california","category-home-garden","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","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=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}