FLOWER: ONE NIGHT STAND (PDF-1695)

Or I should say, one-night bloom. This photos is of a Night-Blooming Cereus (Cereus greggii), a plain-enough looking plant from South America that blooms for one night only. It opens at dusk and is gone by dawn. It is what I personally consider the most amazing flower I have ever seen, amazing not only in its size (7-inch blossom), but it also has THE most incredible scent of any flower I have known. The fragrance of this flower is not only better than the finest perfume, but it reaches beyond my ability to smell and somehow penetrates into the brain itself. It is pungent like smelling salts, but delightful and informative in its penetration, producing for me as much an insight as a sensation.