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Oenothera

Date
18. July 2007, 15:17
Author
Christophe Stoll
In category
English, precious moments, precious things

The sequence shown takes only about a minute (image borrowed from Wikipedia).

I’m currently residing at my parents house and we’re sitting in the garden a lot. A highlight every evening is the opening of Evening Primrose blossoms, a gorgeous progress you can observe with the naked eye.

I’m not only impressed by the speed of this procedure, but also by the apparently highly sophisticated sensory perception* of this plant. Several blossoms open up every evening (and only in the evening) and are already withered the next morning.

* As far as I read on german Wikipedia, the moment of opening blossoms depends on altitude of the sun, daytime temperature and air humidity.

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1.
 Stefan…
18. July 2007

Das all-abendliche Öffnen der Engelstrompeten im elterlichen Garten habe ich zwar noch nicht beobachten aber dafür riechen können. Jeweils mit dem Einsetzen der Dämmerung umströmt der Duft der Blüten die gesamte Terrasse.

2.
 ben…
19. July 2007

just recently i needed some footage of a flower for a project of mine, and in my search i came across these beautiful shots of time-lapse photography: http://www.archive.org/details/GardenWiseA
there’s a second part to this specific movie, and it’s also part of the great prelinger archive - which is a free broadcast-quality archive of old movies that you can download (there are many really great ones in there, free to use for whatever u want)…

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