{"id":110,"date":"2005-05-31T09:16:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-31T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/05\/31\/prickly-pear-cactus-on-a-dead-saguaro\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T19:19:38","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T02:19:38","slug":"prickly-pear-cactus-on-a-dead-saguaro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/31\/prickly-pear-cactus-on-a-dead-saguaro\/","title":{"rendered":"Prickly Pear Cactus on a Dead Saguaro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/1754\/opuntia-engelmannii-cactus-apple\/\">Cactus Apple or Engelmann&#8217;s Prickly Pear (Opuntia engelmannii)<\/a> growing on top of a dead <a href=\"http:\/\/www.desertusa.com\/july96\/du_saguaro.html\">Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/dead-saguaro.jpg\" alt=\"Cactus Apple or Engelmann's Prickly Pear (Opuntia engelmannii) on a dead Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)\" title=\"Cactus Apple or Engelmann's Prickly Pear (Opuntia engelmannii) on a dead Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)\" width=\"400\" height=\"501\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Two common ways a Saguaro can be killed are by being struck by lightning or by suffering bacterial rot. Engelmann&#8217;s Prickly Pear cacti can sprout in very strange places like this one, such as the debris-filled crotch of a live Saguaro&#8217;s arm or on a dead tree stump. I don&#8217;t know how long this particular Prickly Pear&#8217;s growing spot will remain standing, but when it falls, the Prickly Pear can root again from the base of any stem pad that touches the ground.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/dead-saguaro2.jpg\" alt=\"Cactus Apple or Engelmann's Prickly Pear (Opuntia engelmannii) on a dead Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)\" title=\"Cactus Apple or Engelmann's Prickly Pear (Opuntia engelmannii) on a dead Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I discovered an Cactus Apple or Engelmann&#8217;s Prickly Pear (Opuntia engelmannii) growing on top of a dead Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea). Two common ways a Saguaro can be killed are by being struck by lightning or by suffering bacterial rot. Engelmann&#8217;s Prickly Pear cacti can sprout in very strange places like this one, such as the&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/31\/prickly-pear-cactus-on-a-dead-saguaro\/\" 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-110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110","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=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}