{"id":6604,"date":"2015-05-27T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T02:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/27\/new-life-for-arizona-queen-of-the-night-cacti\/"},"modified":"2015-05-27T20:01:27","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T03:01:27","slug":"new-life-for-arizona-queen-of-the-night-cacti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/05\/27\/new-life-for-arizona-queen-of-the-night-cacti\/","title":{"rendered":"New Life for Arizona Queen of the Night Cacti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queen-new-growth.jpg' title='New Growth on the Hill'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/queen-new-growth.jpg' alt='New Growth on the Hill' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, I took the short hike up to the back of the lot to check things out. I was interested in whether the Arizona Queen of the Night cactus would be showing signs of new life. I was not disappointed when I saw these small buds on the shaft of the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Peniocereus_greggii\">Peniocereus greggii<\/a><\/em> that had been nearly destroyed by a fallen palo verde branch up there. There are also two more four-inch branches growing along another part of the cactus.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the branch that we cut off <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/02\/08\/rose-quartz-cactus-rescue\/\">last February<\/a> in order to try and rescue the cactus is showing signs of having taken root (<a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/new-growth.jpg' title='image'>image<\/a>). It may be too soon to tell if this is a flower bud or a new branch developing on the cutting.<\/p>\n<p>With some luck, we may be able to see the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/07\/18\/queen-of-the-night-opening\/\">gorgeous flowers<\/a> from one of the Arizona Queen of the Nights this summer. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to <strong>Crotalus<\/strong> for setting us straight on the binomial designation for this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, I took the short hike up to the back of the lot to check things out. I was interested in whether the Arizona Queen of&#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":[70,49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-home-garden"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","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=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}