{"id":6555,"date":"2015-04-21T20:37:32","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T03:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/thimble-cactus-flowers\/"},"modified":"2015-04-21T20:38:08","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T03:38:08","slug":"thimble-cactus-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/thimble-cactus-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Thimble Cactus Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/thimble-cactus.jpg' title='Thimble Cactus Flowers'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/thimble-cactus.jpg' alt='Thimble Cactus Flowers' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>My little thimble cactus has lots of open flowers at this time. I had this one out back, but it is now in the courtyard because of the <a href=\"http:\/\/reynosawatch.org\/minstrel\/2015\/04\/21\/construction-update-xi\/\">construction<\/a>. It didn&#8217;t seem to mind the transition though, since the tiny flowers continue to open. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>The official botanical name of this cactus is <em>Mammillaria fragilis<\/em>. Here&#8217;s some information I found on the web at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plantoftheweek.org\/week381.shtml\">PlantOfTheWeek.org<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mammillaria fragilis, or Thimble Cactus, is a clump-forming cactus native to Central Mexico. The clumps can exceed 12 inches (30 cm) in width in containers. Stems are up to 1 inch thick and are easily disarticulated. Tubercles are in 5-8 spirals with 12-16 white, radial spines, which are needle shaped and up to 5 mm long. The central spine are brown at the tips, pointed outward and very stout. This cactus is an easy one to grow and very showy in containers.<\/p>\n<p>Blooming: In the greenhouse, our specimen blooms from late summer into fall, with very small pale yellow flowers about 1\/2 inch (1.2 cm) long. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I can say that outdoors in the Arizona high desert that our specimen starts blooming in April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My little thimble cactus has lots of open flowers at this time. I had this one out back, but it is now in the courtyard because&#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":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6555","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\/6555","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=6555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}