{"id":6625,"date":"2015-06-08T20:24:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T03:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/a-devils-tongue-flower\/"},"modified":"2015-06-08T20:28:27","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T03:28:27","slug":"a-devils-tongue-flower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2015\/06\/08\/a-devils-tongue-flower\/","title":{"rendered":"A Devil&#8217;s Tongue Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/devils-tongue-barrel-cactus-flower.jpg' title='Devil\u2019s Tongue Flower'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/devils-tongue-barrel-cactus-flower.jpg' alt='Devil\u2019s Tongue Flower' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The first flower of the season on my <strong>Devil&#8217;s Tongue Barrel Cactus<\/strong> (<em>Ferocactus latispinus<\/em>) has opened. I got this photo yesterday before the rabbits and\/or other desert critters munched on it and a couple of the buds. <\/p>\n<p>I think I have the binomial name for this species correct although many of the on-line references show purple or pink flowers. I have another, smaller, Devil&#8217;s Tongue Barrel that does get purple flowers in late summer or fall. This one, however, has always had yellow flowers in late spring or early summer.<\/p>\n<p>This cactus followed us from California in a large terra cotta pot. We planted it in the ground and it seems to like it here, as do many of the cacti we brought with us. <\/p>\n<p>Click on the image to enlarge. Don&#8217;t mind the little bugs on the petals because I&#8217;m not about to flick them off with all those sharp spikes down there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first flower of the season on my Devil&#8217;s Tongue Barrel Cactus (Ferocactus latispinus) has opened. I got this photo yesterday before the rabbits and\/or other&#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-6625","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\/6625","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=6625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6625\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}