{"id":2528,"date":"2010-03-20T14:44:36","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:44:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/20\/yikes-spikes-2\/"},"modified":"2010-03-20T14:44:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T21:44:36","slug":"yikes-spikes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2010\/03\/20\/yikes-spikes-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yikes! Spikes!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/devils-tongue.jpg' title='devils tongue'><img src='http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/devils-tongue.thumbnail.jpg' alt='devils tongue' class='right' \/><\/a><strong>Devil&#8217;s Tongue (ferocactus latispinus)<\/strong> is fairly popular in cultivation because it blooms very early, many young plants will bloom when they reach 4 inches in diameter (10 cm). The Devil&#8217;s Tongue Barrel has pinkish purple or yellow flowers, 1 to 1.5 inches in diameter (2.5 to 3.5 cm). They come in late autumn to early winter, and need a fair amount of bright sunlight to form.<\/p>\n<p>(Above information courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desert-tropicals.com\/Plants\/Cactaceae\/Ferocactus_latispinus.html\">Desert Tropicals<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>The spikes on this Devil&#8217;s Tongue barrel cactus certainly look formidable. I liked this close-up that Verna took of the one in our garden last week. Click on the image to enlarge.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned to see some more desert flowers Verna is going to post next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Devil&#8217;s Tongue (ferocactus latispinus) is fairly popular in cultivation because it blooms very early, many young plants will bloom when they reach 4 inches in diameter&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}