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Nightblooming cereus cactus.
You have to be a real "night-owl" to view these ephemeral blooms which have a distinctive sweet aroma and visible drops of delicious nectar.



The bud blossoms into a 6" flower about midnight, quickly giving off its attractive and intoxicating fragrance.



This amazing display is usually completely wilted and long gone before morning sunrise.



I originally took this cutting from Patti's plant several months ago and simply stuck it in the ground where it took root by itself and then put on its own celebration of Creation.



Isn't God awesome, and nature marvelous?
(Pictures taken in San Antonio, Florida on May 4th, 2002 11:30 PM air temperature was in the high 80's.)

UPDATE!

The "Other Side" of the Story!

The original single sword-blade-like cutting put out many, many other flat branches and triangular stem shoots that attached to the north side of the oak tree growing upwards reaching over 8' - in spite of the squirrels behavior tearing down height growth, eating almost every sweet bud the plant ever produced, and "corn-on-the-cob-style" dinning on blades they deliberately broke off.
Now after planting the squirrel broken pieces, growth of new too long bladed branching or 2004/2005 hurricane damage, which all took root on their own, look on the other side of the oak tree what an old weathered rodent-nibbled original piece produced almost exactly FOUR years later!



My "Buddy", Guarding "Rosie's"*
Nightblooming Cereus Cactus Flower
From the Squirrels.
May 10th, 2006 - 11:00 PM







(The temperature went down to 57o Fahrenheit during the night, which is probably why I was able to take pictures of the bloom at 8:25 AM. It lasted even a bit longer before closing up and finally going to "sleep".)

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