I don’t know the variety of this Night Blooming Cereus Cactus flower. This flower only blooms at night, once a year or every couple of years. It has been 2 years since we have seen a flower, but we haven’t stayed up all night to wait for one either. This one was still in full bloom by the morning 2 years ago, making it the last flower we have seen from this plant. Rare capture!
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49 responses to “FOTD – Night Blooming Cereus”
Wow! Just WOW!
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Thanks Goldie! My thoughts too when I saw it opened up. 🙂
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Beautiful!!!!!!!!!
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Awesome shoot.
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Thank you so much! 🙂 It was great to get.
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Stunning bloom and worth waiting for! 😍
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Yes mam! It was worth waiting for and now I wait again, probably another long period of time. 🙂
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It’s beautiful! I love the image with all the stamens.
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Thank you so much! Beauty for just a few hours. 🙂
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That’s so beautiful!
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Thank you Cathy. The flower is very beautiful. The cactus not so much! I think I need to fertilize it. 🙂
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Wow!! 🤩🌟🤩
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Exactly! 🙂
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This is so awesome! Love it!
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Thank you Rita! One of my favorite flowers ever! 🙂
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I have a picture of this plant taken its native environment. I will use it as my FOTD. I haven’t used it as It, not much to see to long stalks behind a bush.
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That would be awesome to see! 🙂
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Oh what wonderful and crystal clear photos. 😀
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Thank you Cee! I wished it bloomed more than it does. 🙂
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Nature is amazing 💜
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Yes, it really is! 🙂
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💜
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It’s so beautiful 😍
It’s great that you managed to capture it
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We got lucky getting this flower. We had a few others bloom a few days apart, but this was the cream of the crop! So to speak! 🙂
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Such a beauty!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Well done….we have one are are hopeful.
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I hope you get that flower too. It’s magical. 😊
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Checked yesterday, before some tremendous thunderstorms, and there are tiny flowers on many leaves. Moved it inside…here’s hoping.
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I hope that works for you! 🙂
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so lucky to have captured such a rare sight!
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yes, it was quite something! now if that luck could give me the winning lottery numbers, I’d be all set! 🙂
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I’ve often fantasized about what I would do if I won the lottery…
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I still do! I bought a Mega Millions ticket last Monday for Tuesday’s drawing. I was 1-3 away on every single number, even the mega ball. I’d rather be way off than get close like that. First ticket I bought in 6 months and was only $2. I had two singles in purse. Oh well! I know I’d be travelling all over the country in a travel trailer spreading good cheer! Still wouldn’t get on an airplane & wouldn’t buy one either. 🙂
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I haven’t bought one in quite a while; I always would buy one once the jackpot got over $100 million. I have no idea what it is at right now.
For me – quit my job, buy a beach house, and travel the world. That’s not asking too much… 🙂
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That’s what I’d be doing too once it’s safe to fly. I’d settle for that travel trailer and visit every state in the lower 48. Canada once we are allowed back in. I don’t think I want to travel through Mexico that way though.
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going to Mexico in a trailer reminds me of the movie We Are the Millers… 🙂
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Yep, pretty much! I’ve been to Tijuana and don’t have any desire to get into a compromising situation with the Policia Federal. No thank you! I can’t speak Spanish fluently & would probably say something that would get me behind bars without knowing it.
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wise decision…
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I would fly into any of the major cities. Mexican food is my favorite cuisine next to Italian. YUM!
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we are also big fans of Mexican food, along with Thai…
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I can eat Mexican food if it isn’t too spicy. I’m allergic to coconut and much of the Thai food has coconut milk in it and I don’t like ginger. I’m not a vegetarian, but 90% of my diet is.
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I like spicy food, and that’s shame to hear about your allergies…
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It’s alright. I’m allergic to raisins too but I can eat grapes. Strange! 🤐
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that is strange about grapes and raisins!
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That is an amazing plant..never saw this.
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yeah, I hope it blooms again sometime. No buds right now.
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These are amazing shots! I especially like the second one. The center of the flower looks like a hole to the center of the Earth.
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Thank you Joseph. What a wonderful description of this flower. To the ends of the earth, may we find Mother Nature…moody or not??? 🙂
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