Nightly flowers 2

It's like those night photos of rare and endangered big cats in the wild. Here are the elusive Neohenricia flowers in their "almost open" state (the nearest I could get so far) at midnight. I guess the strong sweet fragrance is there to lead insects to the flowers in the dark. Too bad there's no fragrance-sensitive camera that would automatically go off when the flowers open. :)

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