{"id":6112,"date":"2018-06-02T13:00:31","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/02\/saguaro-flowers-2\/"},"modified":"2018-06-02T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2018-06-02T20:00:31","slug":"saguaro-flowers-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/02\/saguaro-flowers-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Saguaro Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/saguaro-flower.jpg' title='Saguaro Flower'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/saguaro-flower.jpg' alt='Saguaro Flower' width='500' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Late spring of 2018 has been quite the saguaro flower show in our Sonoran Desert. Our big cactus out front has had many and will have many more flowers opening.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Saguaro#Flowers\">From Wikipedia:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Flowers appear in April through June. They are white and open well after sunset and close in mid-afternoon. They continue to produce nectar after sunrise.[8] Flowers are self-incompatible, thus require cross-pollination. Large quantities of pollen are required for complete pollination because many ovules are present. This pollen is produced by the extremely numerous stamens which in one case totaled 3,482 in a single flower. A well-pollinated fruit contains several thousand tiny seeds. Saguaros have a redundant pollination system, i.e. full fruit set is possible even if only a fraction of the pollinating species are present.<\/p>\n<p>Main pollinators are honey bees, bats, and white-winged doves. In most years, diurnal visitors are the main contributors for fruit, most of them honey bees. Other diurnal pollinators are birds such as Costa&#8217;s hummingbird, the black-chinned hummingbird, the broad-billed hummingbird, the hooded oriole, Scott&#8217;s oriole, the Gila woodpecker, the gilded flicker, the verdin, and the house finch.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We have enjoyed the &#8220;Bumper Crop&#8221; of flowers this year. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Late spring of 2018 has been quite the saguaro flower show in our Sonoran Desert. Our big cactus out front has had many and will have&#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-6112","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\/6112","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=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}