{"id":29716,"date":"2025-02-03T05:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/?p=29716"},"modified":"2025-03-10T11:01:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-10T16:01:15","slug":"defensive-barrier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourpointedstar.com\/gallery\/2025\/02\/defensive-barrier\/","title":{"rendered":"“Defensive Barrier” – Garfield Conservatory, image 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I guess I’ve never really paid attention to the spines on various cactus plants, but I have definitely never noticed a cactus’s spines that are quite as curvy as this cactus’s are! I love the almost “barrier” like feel to the repeating leaves, if that’s what you would call them, and the repeating pattern makes me wonder if there’s a mathematical system behind their arrangement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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