{"id":11234,"date":"2016-10-24T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-25T02:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11234"},"modified":"2016-10-31T05:43:43","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:43:43","slug":"schlumbergera-truncata-thanksgiving-cactus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11234","title":{"rendered":"<em>Schlumbergera truncata<\/em> (Thanksgiving cactus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11236\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161024_132307.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11236\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161024_132307-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Schlumbergera truncata (Thanksgiving cactus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11236\" data-wp-pid=\"11236\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161024_132307-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161024_132307-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161024_132307-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161024_132307-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161024_132307-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/img_20161024_132307.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11236\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Schlumbergera truncata<\/em> (Thanksgiving cactus)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Dorothy had a two of these Thanksgiving cacti (cultivars of <em>Schlumbergera truncata<\/em>) at school with her but she didn&#8217;t have a place for them this year so they stayed here. We have had them in a westward facing window in our dining room and this one has started to bloom. In the week between when I took this and now, when I&#8217;m posting it, the other one has started to bloom, also. Thanksgiving cactus can be differentiated from Christmas cactus by its pointy teeth on the leaf-like stem segments and from the flowers, which are held more horizontally and which are less symmetrical on Thanksgiving cacti. On Christmas cactus, which are cultivars of <em>S. russelliana<\/em>, the stem segments are rounded and the flowers hang down more and are more symmetrical. Both come from a small area of the coastal mountains of south-eastern Brazil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dorothy had a two of these Thanksgiving cacti (cultivars of Schlumbergera truncata) at school with her but she didn&#8217;t have a place for them this year so they stayed here. We have had them in a westward facing window in our dining room and this one has started to bloom. In the week between when &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=11234\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&raquo;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11234"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11237,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11234\/revisions\/11237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}