AT NIGHT.
A BEAUTIFUL FLOWER. One of the strangest flowers, and one that is not often seen, because it only flowers after night has fallen, and then withers before dawn comes, is the night flowering Cereus. Except at the time it blossoms, this plant, which is one of the few that turn night into day, is not at all attractive in. appearance. What you see is nothing more than a leafless distorted tangle of discoloured and repellent vegetable fibres. But when this unpromising mass of roots does break into blossom, it throws out flowers as beautiful as they are deliciously scented. The- bulb begins to unfold a little after dark, and in an hour or two it has grown to a large flower several feet in circumference, which at midnight is brown and orange and white, and fills the air with a heavy tropical scent like a compound of fresh fragipanni, roses, and tiger lilies. An hour or so before breakfast the plant is again an apparently withered heap.
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Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15116, 29 December 1921, Page 6
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169AT NIGHT. Thames Star, Volume LVII, Issue 15116, 29 December 1921, Page 6
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