Florida has some very interesting plants. One of them is this night blooming cactus (flowering cereus cacti). It gets a beautiful flower overnight and then in the morning it closes up and wilts.
This is around 9pm in September so it’s getting dark earlier.
Around 10pm they have started to open up.
Early the next morning (around 6:30am maybe), the flower is completely opened.
As soon as the sun comes up, the flower begins to close and by the end of the day is wilted. Because cacti grow in the desert where days can be brutally hot, they flower at night to attract the animals that pollinate it.
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