{"id":7703,"date":"2024-05-15T15:29:38","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T22:29:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=7703"},"modified":"2024-05-15T15:29:38","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T22:29:38","slug":"cholla-cactus-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/15\/cholla-cactus-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholla Cactus Growth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of years ago, a Cholla Cactus sprout appeared in the xeriscape on the west side of the house toward the front. At the time, we decided to let it grow where it sat. I took the first photo below about a year ago and posted a <a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2023\/05\/10\/a-new-cholla-cactus-in-3d\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">3D picture<\/a> of the little cactus then.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7343\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-cholla-cactus-2d.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7343\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-cholla-cactus-2d.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-cholla-cactus-2d.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-cholla-cactus-2d-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/20230508-cholla-cactus-2d-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7343\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cholla Cactus One Year Ago<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Today, as I walked around the property, I took the next photo below of the growing cactus. It seems to be growing quite rapidly, and a closer inspection of the cactus shows more &#8220;branches&#8221; beginning to sprout. <\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7705\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240515-growing-cholla.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7705\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240515-growing-cholla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7705\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240515-growing-cholla.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240515-growing-cholla-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/20240515-growing-cholla-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7705\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cholla As It Looks Today<\/p><\/div>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/capnbob.us\/blog\/2013\/04\/15\/flowering-cholla-cactus\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">other blog<\/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>A couple of years ago, a Cholla Cactus sprout appeared in the xeriscape on the west side of the house toward the front. At the time,&#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":[38,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-pretty-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703","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=7703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7707,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7703\/revisions\/7707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}