{"id":5505,"date":"2019-05-31T17:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T21:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/?p=5505"},"modified":"2019-06-02T15:45:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T19:45:45","slug":"opuntia-cespitosa-eastern-prickly-pear-31-may-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/?p=5505","title":{"rendered":"Opuntia cespitosa &#8211; <br>Eastern Prickly Pear &#8211; <BR>31 May 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00598.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5490 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00598-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00598-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00598-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00598-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus (<strong><em>Opuntia cespitosa<\/em><\/strong>) is in full bloom on the Patuxent Research Refuge today by Lake Allen on the North Tract. This species differs from the other two species of <strong><em>Opuntia<\/em> <\/strong>found in Maryland by the reddish area at the base of the petals, and smooth spines found mainly on the margins of the pads.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00579.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5492 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00579-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00579-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00579-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00579-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00599.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5491 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00599-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00599-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00599-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00599-683x1024.jpg 683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00581.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5493 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00581-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00581-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00581-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/DSC00581-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eastern Prickly Pear Cactus (Opuntia cespitosa) is in full bloom on the Patuxent Research Refuge today by Lake Allen on the North Tract. This species differs from the other two species of Opuntia found in Maryland by the reddish area at the base of the petals, and smooth spines found mainly on the margins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-journal"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5505"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5510,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5505\/revisions\/5510"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.botanybill.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}