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In February, more than 400,000 people around the world, tuning in to a live webcam, watched a flower open. Native to the waterlogged Igapó forests of the Amazon, the cactus to which it belongs,
Selenicereus wittii, isn’t just rare – only 13 exist anywhere in cultivation – the flowering happens once a year, for only 12 hours, during winter and at night. Just two hours after its spiky white petals reach full extension, the flower starts to wilt, its gardenia-like fragrance superseded by a nose-wrinkling rancidity. Even onlookers incapable of differentiating a geranium from a gerbera were enchanted by the beautiful implausibility of the drama unfolding – literally – inside the tropical greenhouse of the Cambridge University Botanic Garden.
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