Unexpected

[ellarien]

I really wasn't expecting to see this when I popped out for coffee and a bowl of chili at lunchtime. These usually bloom at night, and wither within a couple of hours of sunrise, but today was so cool and cloudy that this one bloom -- out of half a dozen or so on the large plant -- was still in good shape.

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[tigra-olga.livejournal.com]

Прекрасный цветок, отличное фото!!!)))

[ellarien]

Спасибо!

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Hey, that looks just like the flower (even to the size) that the cactus I kept on my bedroom windowsill as a child used to throw up in its later years. Except that the cactus on my windowsill was about six inches tall, though by the end it had about thirty stems (or whatever you call the fleshy bits.) Those looked like the ones in your piccie too, though a lot smaller!

[ellarien]

These grow to six feet or so around here -- which I don't think is their native habitat -- but there are lots of similar varieties. This flower was maybe six inches across, and not the largest I've seen.