I have written frequently about Bloom Night, the one night during the year when most of the hundreds of night-blooming cereus at Tohono Chul Park bloom in unison. This event can only be predicted at the last minute,though it almost always occurs during the monsoon.
I did not work the event last night, but went to my Rove very early this morning, when the Park had been opened to visitors who had not been able to attend last night. Many of the blossoms were still open, and even those that had closed still had a lovely scent. These are some of the things the visitors and I saw:
Luminarias (paper bags, containing a candle and weighted with sand), marking the trails where the cereus blooms were concentrated
Four lovely pink cereus blooms.
Partially closed blooms from Emerald, which still has about ten unopened buds.
Two amazingly open bright white cereus that had apparently not received the message that it was daytime and already over 90 degrees
In the center of the Park, a Puerto Rican cereus of a different species, which also (and coincidentally) decided to bloom last night
Somehow I had recalled the cereus to be more barrelish in morphology. Lovely blooms, nevertheless.
ReplyDeleteNo; its morphology is exceedingly stickish.
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