{"id":5554,"date":"2015-04-21T18:08:03","date_gmt":"2015-04-22T01:08:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/cholla-flower-2\/"},"modified":"2015-04-21T18:08:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-22T01:08:03","slug":"cholla-flower-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/21\/cholla-flower-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholla Flower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cholla-flower.jpg' title='Cholla Flower'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cholla-flower.jpg' alt='Cholla Flower' width='500' \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>As long as they keep coming, I&#8217;ll photograph and post our desert cactus flowers. This is a cholla flower I photographed a couple of days ago. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Snippet from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enature.com\/fieldguides\/detail.asp?recNum=WF1817\">eNature.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Opuntia acanthocarpa &#8211; buckhorn cholla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The main trunk of this tree-like cactus is short and erect; branching open and low to ground. Branches are cylindrical; the joints light green.<\/p>\n<p>Habit: native perennial shrub; succulent stems, in segments 4-20 in (10-50 cm) tall by 0.75-1.25 in (2-3 cm) diameter; new growth is gray-green to purple-green; old growth has rough, scaly, brownish black bark.<\/p>\n<p>Flower: delicate, lemon yellow to copper to red to pink, 2-3 in (5-7.5 cm) wide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As long as they keep coming, I&#8217;ll photograph and post our desert cactus flowers. This is a cholla flower I photographed a couple of days ago.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,39,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-flowers","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554","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=5554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}