{"id":18033,"date":"2019-11-18T18:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18033"},"modified":"2019-11-25T12:36:16","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T17:36:16","slug":"schlumbergera-truncata-thanksgiving-cactus-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18033","title":{"rendered":"<em>Schlumbergera truncata<\/em> (Thanksgiving Cactus)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18035\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_20191118_172015.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18035\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_20191118_172015-350x233.jpg\" alt=\"Schlumbergera truncata (Thanksgiving Cactus)\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18035\" data-wp-pid=\"18035\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_20191118_172015-350x233.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_20191118_172015-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_20191118_172015-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_20191118_172015-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_20191118_172015-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/img_20191118_172015.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18035\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Schlumbergera truncata<\/em> (Thanksgiving Cactus)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Occasionally, a little bit of benign neglect is exactly what a plant needs to thrive. This Thanksgiving cactus (<em>Schlumbergera truncata<\/em>) has been on the floor of the kitchen, underneath Solomon&#8217;s cage, for a while and although it gets watered from time to time, it isn&#8217;t getting the attention it probably deserves. That&#8217;s generally a recipe for dead plants, but this one gut just enough attention, apparently, because it&#8217;s come into bloom a few weeks ahead of the holiday it&#8217;s named for. I took a few photos of entire flowers but they are mostly white with only a very small amount of pink and therefore don&#8217;t show a lot of detail in a photograph. I thought this photo of the pale stamens with their pollen and the red and pink style was nicer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Occasionally, a little bit of benign neglect is exactly what a plant needs to thrive. This Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) has been on the floor of the kitchen, underneath Solomon&#8217;s cage, for a while and although it gets watered from time to time, it isn&#8217;t getting the attention it probably deserves. That&#8217;s generally a recipe &hellip; <a class=\"read-excerpt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/?p=18033\">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":[281,233,2140,2139,737,2141],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033"}],"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=18033"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18038,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18033\/revisions\/18038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.henryhartley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}