{"id":6562,"date":"2022-03-30T14:12:44","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T21:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=6562"},"modified":"2022-03-30T15:56:17","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T22:56:17","slug":"first-cactus-flowers-of-spring-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/30\/first-cactus-flowers-of-spring-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"First Cactus Flowers of Spring, 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220330-hedgehog-cactus-flower.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220330-hedgehog-cactus-flower.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually, not the first ones*, but this is the first to open on the native cacti around the yard. Verna <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/20220330-cactus-photographer.jpg\">took this photo<\/a> of one of two flowers that were open today on a hedgehog cactus in front of the house.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Echinocereus\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Echinocereus is a genus of ribbed, usually small to medium-sized, cylindrical cacti, comprising about 70 species native to the southern United States and Mexico in very sunny, rocky places. Usually the flowers are large and the fruit edible.<\/p>\n<p>The name comes from the Ancient Greek echinos, meaning &#8220;hedgehog&#8221; and the Latin cereus meaning &#8220;candle&#8221;. They are sometimes known as hedgehog cacti, a term also used for the Pediocactus and Echinopsis.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article at Wikipedia lists most of the species of hedgehog cacti, but we&#8217;re not sure of which one this cactus belongs to. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>*There are several store-bought cacti in planters around the courtyard and other places which have already produced tiny flowers in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actually, not the first ones*, but this is the first to open on the native cacti around the yard. Verna took this photo of one of&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"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-6562","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\/6562","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6562"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6572,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6562\/revisions\/6572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}