{"id":76,"date":"2005-05-03T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-03T16:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/fire\/2005\/05\/03\/cristate-cacti\/"},"modified":"2007-06-18T19:23:34","modified_gmt":"2007-06-19T02:23:34","slug":"cristate-cacti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/03\/cristate-cacti\/","title":{"rendered":"Cristate Cacti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cacti can rarely develop very strange, abnormal growth patterns, either monstrose (random, deformed growth) or cristate (crested tip) growth patterns. The photograph below shows a crested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/339\/carnegiea-gigantea-saguaro\/\">Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/saguaro-crest.jpg\" alt=\"Crested Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)\" title=\"Crested Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Next is a crested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/899\/cylindropuntia-fulgida-jumping-cholla\/\">Chainfruit Cholla (Opuntia fulgida)<\/a> shown below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/chainfruit-cholla-crest.jpg\" alt=\"Crested Chainfruit Cholla (Opuntia fulgida)\" title=\"Crested Chainfruit Cholla (Opuntia fulgida)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Below is a crested <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fireflyforest.com\/flowers\/911\/cylindropuntia-spinosior-walkingstick-cactus\/\">Cane Cholla (Opuntia spinosior)<\/a> that appears to have normal stems emerging from the abnormal growth.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2005\/May\/cane-cholla-crest.jpg\" alt=\"Crested Cane Cholla (Opuntia spinosior)\" title=\"Crested Cane Cholla (Opuntia spinosior)\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cacti can rarely develop very strange, abnormal growth patterns, either monstrose (random, deformed growth) or cristate (crested tip) growth patterns. The photograph below shows a crested Saguaro (Carnegiea gigantea). Next is a crested Chainfruit Cholla (Opuntia fulgida) shown below. Below is a crested Cane Cholla (Opuntia spinosior) that appears to have normal stems emerging from&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/03\/cristate-cacti\/\" 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-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-wild-plants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","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=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}