{"id":2019,"date":"2026-02-09T15:41:31","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/?p=2019"},"modified":"2026-02-09T15:41:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T21:41:31","slug":"shameless-promotion-of-new-web-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/shameless-promotion-of-new-web-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Shameless Promotion A Web Site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><sup>(Photogragh = Opuntia cacanapa with fingerprint)<\/sup><\/p>\n<h1 data-start=\"93\" data-end=\"107\">Introduction<\/h1>\n<p data-start=\"109\" data-end=\"487\">David Griffiths (1867\u20131935) spent the early 1900s crisscrossing cactus country with a large-format camera. He documented <strong data-start=\"230\" data-end=\"241\">Opuntia<\/strong> in the field, in gardens, and on herbarium sheets, leaving behind a remarkable cache of glass negatives. The images are crisp, direct, and full of small clues\u2014pad shape, areoles, fruit, labels, even the tools people used to handle prickly pears.<\/p>\n<h3 data-start=\"489\" data-end=\"504\">The Details<\/h3>\n<p data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"904\"><strong data-start=\"506\" data-end=\"522\">Take a look:<\/strong> <strong data-start=\"523\" data-end=\"595\"><a class=\"decorated-link\" href=\"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/griffiths\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\" data-start=\"525\" data-end=\"593\">Griffiths Glass Cactus Negatives<\/a><\/strong>.<br data-start=\"596\" data-end=\"599\" \/>This small side site is a growing archive of high-resolution positive scans made from Griffiths\u2019s 8\u00d710-inch plates. You can zoom in to study pads and spines, read hand-written tags, and compare plants across regions and seasons. Entries are organized so you can browse by species or wander the full index.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"906\" data-end=\"1206\">Why it\u2019s worth your time: these photographs freeze a formative moment in <strong data-start=\"979\" data-end=\"990\">Opuntia<\/strong> work\u2014plants in habitat, experimental plots, nursery rows, and carefully staged herbarium material. The images complement modern color photos on Opuntia Web and help clarify traits that are easy to miss in the field.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1208\" data-end=\"1477\">It\u2019s a work in progress, and I\u2019ll keep adding plates as I process them. If you spot a mislabeled plant, or if a photo sparks a memory, feel free to drop me a note. In the meantime, pour a coffee, open the gallery, and enjoy the stark beauty of cacti in black and white.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Photogragh = Opuntia cacanapa with fingerprint) Introduction David Griffiths (1867\u20131935) spent the early 1900s crisscrossing cactus country with a large-format camera. He documented Opuntia in the field, in gardens, and on herbarium sheets, leaving behind a remarkable cache of glass negatives. The images are crisp, direct, and full of small clues\u2014pad shape, areoles, fruit, labels, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5820,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[27],"class_list":["post-2019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opuntiads","category-other-topic","tag-uses-for-plants"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/1154-cacanapa-013-croppedb.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2019"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6564,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2019\/revisions\/6564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opuntiads.com\/oblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}