{"id":7796,"date":"2020-07-17T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T19:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/night-blooming-cactus-flowers-2\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T14:54:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T21:54:25","slug":"night-blooming-cactus-flowers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2020\/07\/17\/night-blooming-cactus-flowers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Blooming Argentine Giant Cactus Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/giant-collage.jpg' title='Night Blooming Cactus Flowers'><img src='http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/giant-collage.jpg' alt='Night Blooming Cactus Flowers' width='550' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Our Argentine Giant (Echinopsis candicans) offered these two beautiful flowers last evening. This is the <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/arg-giant.jpg\">second blooming<\/a> on this cactus this year. Since we purchased this cactus in 2011 and planted it in front of the house, it has reliably given us flowers every year. This year, it is also starting to grow &#8220;pups,&#8221; which are the three buds seen near the base of the cactus in the image at the left above. This variety of cactus spreads out as it ages with several pups, each eventually producing flowers.<\/p>\n<p>About Argentine Giant from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Echinopsis_candicans\">Wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Echinopsis candicans has a shrubby growth habit, with individual stems up to 60 cm (24 in) tall. The plant as a whole can be as much as 3 m (10 ft) across. The stems are light green, with a diameter of up to 14 cm (5.5 in) and have 9\u201311 low ribs. The large white areoles are spaced at 2\u20133 cm (0.8\u20131.2 in) and produce brownish yellow spines, the central spines being up to 10 cm (3.9 in) long, the radial spines only up to 4 cm (1.6 in).<\/p>\n<p>The fragrant white flowers open at night. They are large, up to 19 cm (7.5 in) across and 18\u201323 cm (7.1\u20139.1 in) long.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Summer is not over by a long shot and there are more desert flowers to come. Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Argentine Giant (Echinopsis candicans) offered these two beautiful flowers last evening. This is the second blooming on this cactus this year. Since we purchased 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":[70,72,49,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7796","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\/7796","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=7796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}