{"id":52589,"date":"2018-10-26T20:40:15","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T01:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/?p=52589"},"modified":"2018-10-29T07:47:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T12:47:57","slug":"green-and-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/green-and-red\/","title":{"rendered":"Green and red"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I found a pleasant surprise this morning. A Stapelia flavopurpurea<\/em> that I started from seed about 18 months ago is blooming. The photo above is much larger than life-size; the actual size of the flower is about an inch across. Click to see it even larger. Technical note: the picture was composed from a stack of 51 separate images assembled in Helicon Focus.<\/p>\n

S. flavopurpurea<\/em> is an atypical stapeliad in that the flowers don’t smell like something’s dead. It’s said to have a scent like beeswax, but I haven’t been able to detect any fragrance at all. Although Stapelias<\/em> and their kin often look like cacti, they are not related. They are currently part of the Apocynaceae<\/em>, which includes oleanders and vinca and the milkweeds.<\/span>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> Stapeliad flowers are as complicated as they look; you have to go to the Orchidaceae<\/em> to find more complex flowers.<\/p>\n

There are more S. flavopurpurea<\/em> pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Trees in Wichita have finally begun to turn color. I grabbed a few snapshots on my way to and from work today. There are more here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I found a pleasant surprise this morning. A Stapelia flavopurpurea that I started from seed about 18 months ago is blooming. The photo above is much larger than life-size; the actual size of the flower is about an inch across. Click to see it even larger. Technical note: the picture was composed from a stack … Continue reading “Green and red”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[692,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-botany","category-photo-gallery"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xam3-dGd","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52589"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52670,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions\/52670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shuffly.net\/zoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}