{"id":8129,"date":"2025-06-28T16:45:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/?p=8129"},"modified":"2025-06-28T16:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T23:45:09","slug":"saguaro-propagation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/28\/saguaro-propagation\/","title":{"rendered":"Saguaro Propagation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If I understand the propagation of the Saguaro Cacti in the southwest correctly, the seeds in the fruit are eaten by various critters and deposited along with bird waste randomly in the desert, where a young cactus may eventually grow.<\/p>\n<p>In any case,  I photographed this Curve Billed Thrasher dining on some of the fruit on the big saguaro in our yard today. Click on either image to enlarge in the image viewer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-1.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/graphics\/imageview.php?image=http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-2.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8131\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250628-thrasher-fruit-2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If I understand the propagation of the Saguaro Cacti in the southwest correctly, the seeds in the fruit are eaten by various critters and deposited along&#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":[38,12,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona","category-critters","category-pretty-stuff","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129","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=8129"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8133,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8129\/revisions\/8133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vernabob.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}