This flower is a night-blooming cactus, the ‘Queen of the Night’, named after the god Selene, who was known for her pale, radiant beauty and her tragically fleeting love affair with the mortal Endymion, who she saw on only a single visit each year under the cover of darkness. The cactus is on a tree 20-feet up from the photographer’s verandah on the second floor. It was a bud in the afternoon but flowered at 10pm that same evening.
Photo: Janet Morse
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