{"id":102,"date":"2005-05-26T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-26T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/05\/26\/buckhorn-cholla\/"},"modified":"2010-03-29T08:29:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-29T18:29:41","slug":"buckhorn-cholla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/26\/buckhorn-cholla\/","title":{"rendered":"Buckhorn Cholla"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/880\/cylindropuntia-acanthocarpa-buck-horn-cholla\/\">Buckhorn Cholla (Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, formerly Opuntia acanthocarpa)<\/a> cacti bloom in late April and May here in Tucson. The de-spined young flower buds are edible if steamed or boiled and they are a traditional food item for the Native Americans in this area. The spiny fruits quickly dry out to a tan color on the plant and are likely not very tasty.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/Opuntia-acanthocarpa.jpg\" alt=\"Buckhorn Cholla (Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, formerly Opuntia acanthocarpa)\" title=\"Buckhorn Cholla (Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, formerly Opuntia acanthocarpa)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Buckhorn Cholla cacti get their common name because of their resemblance to the antlers of a male deer. These cacti are very similar to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/5\/cylindropuntia-versicolor-staghorn-cholla\/\">Staghorn cholla (Cylindropuntia versicolor)<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/911\/cylindropuntia-spinosior-walkingstick-cactus\/\">Cane cholla (Cylindropuntia spinosior)<\/a>, but unlike these other two chollas, Buckhorn Chollas have spiny fruits which will drop off of the plant well before it blooms. If you see a large cholla blooming here with no mature fruits on the whole plant, it is likely a Buckhorn Cholla.<\/p>\n<p>Buckhorn Chollas are mainly found on the west side of Tucson, and they are abundant in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nps.gov\/sagu\/index.htm\">Saguaro National Park West<\/a>, Tucson Mountain District.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buckhorn Cholla (Cylindropuntia acanthocarpa, formerly Opuntia acanthocarpa) cacti bloom in late April and May here in Tucson. The de-spined young flower buds are edible if steamed or boiled and they are a traditional food item for the Native Americans in this area. The spiny fruits quickly dry out to a tan color on the plant&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/26\/buckhorn-cholla\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1123,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/1123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}