Queen Of The Night Flowers Blooming In A Time-Lapse Video Is Nature At Its Best

Nature is a beautiful thing and leaves us speechless with its ways. A video showing how the Queen of the Night flowers bloom, has created quite a stir on social media.

The time-lapse video is 49 seconds long and has gone viral on Twitter.

The Queen of the Night, scientifically known as the Epiphyllum oxypetalum, is a species of cactus. Its flowers rarely bloom and when they do, it is during the night. The flowers wilt before dawn.

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In the clip, two Queen of the Night flowers can be seen blooming as the evening turns into night. As morning comes, the flowers begin to wilt.

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The video was shared by user @iatemuggles with the caption, 'Time-lapse of 2 Queen Of The Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms'.

time-lapse of 2 Queen Of The Night (Epiphyllum oxypetalum) blooms pic.twitter.com/UmZWZa69MH

¡ª ? (@iatemuggles) August 8, 2020

The video has gone viral on the micro-blogging website, with over 66,000 views and 2,700 likes. People were left absolutely mesmerised with the phenomenon; One user wrote, 'Thought it was a 3d animation at first as I thought it was outside by the stairs and it seemed massive. Second look, realized it was indoors. What a beauty!'

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we have them in my house and the perfume they release at bloom it's amazing.

¡ª Kelender also Lucas. ??? (@KelenderChaotic) August 8, 2020

We had one today pic.twitter.com/XoGD5W3gxO

¡ª Ram? (@__init__ram) August 10, 2020

That¡¯s how nature is sometimes, gotta get while the getting is good

¡ª theycallmeken (@theycallmeken) August 11, 2020

imagine sleeping under it

¡ª simon (@stillwellgray) August 10, 2020

Epiphyllum oxypetalum is native to Southern Mexico and to extensive areas of South America. It is widely cultivated in tropical areas of southeast Asia and has become naturalised in China.

In India, the Queen of the Night is called Iruludavare in Kannada, meaning "night lotus". It is called Gulebakavali in Ancient Tamil.

It is believed that the wishes of people who pray to God while the Queen of the Night flower is blooming, will be fulfilled.

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