{"id":543,"date":"2007-08-13T15:47:56","date_gmt":"2007-08-13T22:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/devils-tongue\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T12:26:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T19:26:10","slug":"devils-tongue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/13\/devils-tongue\/","title":{"rendered":"Devil&#8217;s Tongue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\" href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/devils-tongue.jpg\" title=\"devils-tongue.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image542\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/devils-tongue.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"devils-tongue.jpg\" class=\"left\" \/><\/a>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 sundown. They often open for several days in a row before withering.<\/p>\n<p>The Devil&#8217;s Tongue Barrel or Crow&#8217;s Claw Cactus has pinkish purple or yellow flowers. This cactus is fairly popular in cultivation because it blooms very early, many young plants will bloom when they reach 4 inches in diameter or so. Our Devil&#8217;s Tongue cactus is about the size of a basketball.<\/p>\n<p>Click on the image for a larger view.<\/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":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}