{"id":8589,"date":"2026-08-18T15:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=8589"},"modified":"2026-08-18T15:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T22:05:09","slug":"tom-thumb-cactus-flowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/18\/tom-thumb-cactus-flowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Thumb Cactus Flowers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260818-orange-cactus-flowers.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260818-orange-cactus-flowers.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8590\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260818-orange-cactus-flowers.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260818-orange-cactus-flowers-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20260818-orange-cactus-flowers-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is my &#8220;Tom Thumb&#8221; Cactus (parodia microsperma) which is currently sporting these four lovely flowers. We just learned the name for this cactus today from <a href=\"https:\/\/grok.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Grok<\/a>. The cactus variety is a native to Argentina like some of our other non-domestic cacti. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is my &#8220;Tom Thumb&#8221; Cactus (parodia microsperma) which is currently sporting these four lovely flowers. We just learned the name for this cactus today from&#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":[38,39,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8589","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\/8589","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=8589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8592,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8589\/revisions\/8592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}