{"id":7123,"date":"2013-09-27T06:26:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T13:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/?p=7123"},"modified":"2018-08-15T10:15:40","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T17:15:40","slug":"desert-shrooms-and-blooms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/desert-shrooms-and-blooms\/","title":{"rendered":"Desert Shrooms and Blooms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"mjensen-desert-shrooms-2018\"I’m back in Flagstaff but I’m not going to post anything from here until I catch up! So I will divide the rest of September into 3 posts starting with the wonderful rains we received early this month. Lots of rain is needed for Fungi to pop up in the Desert and we received both!Since Fungi like very moist environments, they are most commonly seen in lawns and golf courses but there were many puffballs spotted near an under shrubs in the desert this month much to the delight of hikers who had never seen them.<\/p>\n

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Green Gilled Parasols on golf course by my house. (Highly poisonous). That is the McDowell Sonoran Preserve in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Green Gilled Parasol. McDowell Mountains and Preserve in the background.<\/p><\/div>\n

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Desert Inky Caps. McDowell Sonoran Preserve in the background. (smartphone image)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Common<\/a>

Common Puffballs in the Sonoran Desert (Smartphone image)<\/p><\/div>\n

Our weather has been very strange the entire year which confused many of my plants. My Echinopsis, for instance, bloomed at the times I expected but then I had blooms very late this month which is a record late date for me. Also blooming later than normal was my Ferocactus wislizeni. Mid August is their typical blooming time but I had blooms in mid September. Of course I am not complaining! Photos below.<\/p>\n

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Echinopsis huascha blooming later than normal. (smartphone)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Echinopsis<\/a>

Echinopsis sp. Unfortunately, I missed the second bloom. (Canon Powershot N)<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Ferocactus<\/a>

Ferocactus wislizeni. August is its typical blooming time but I didn’t complain! (Canon Powershot N)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ferocactus wislizeni aka Candy Barrel Barrel Cactus named for the yummy colors! I also have a yellow one. (Canon Powershot N)<\/p><\/div>\n

Oh…and butterflies are starting to show up so I’m including this image from my garden.<\/p>\n

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American Snout butterfly on my Little Leaf Cordia. Interestingly, his “nose” is actually two separate parts. (Canon SX50 at max zoom through a window)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m back in Flagstaff but I’m not going to post anything from here until I catch up! So I will divide the rest of September into 3 posts starting with the wonderful rains we received early this month. Lots of rain is needed for Fungi to pop up in the Desert and we received both!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,29,65,955,28,7,964,192,967,57,104,173],"tags":[13,989,152,969,240],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7123"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7549,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7123\/revisions\/7549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ezpixels.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}