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Post by Peterj on May 29, 2018 5:35:51 GMT
I have much to learn about my new environment in the Tucson AZ area. This is a Night Blooming Cereus in my front yard. I saw withering blooms a few days in a row and on a lark I looked at this cactus in the evening (15 sec, f2.8 ISO 100 exposed at 8:41pm MST) Night blooming attracts their preferred pollinators ... bats.
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Post by Sydney on May 29, 2018 23:56:27 GMT
You have really brought out detail and clarity with this image Pete - nicely done!
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Post by Sepiana on May 30, 2018 0:21:12 GMT
Pete, I agree with Sydney. Amazing details and clarity! Great job!
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Post by BuckSkin on May 30, 2018 4:35:07 GMT
Interesting subject and info; even more so to me as, although we live a long way from Arizona, my aunt has a bunch of flowers whose yellow blooms only open up at dusk and then close themselves at dawn; though they are not any sort of cactus that I can see.
I never thought about the possibility of bats being their pollinators until I read your post.
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