Tag: moonflower

joanhello2:

bogleech:

orchid-grower:

themoonphase:

odysseydawn:

Moon flowers, yes? My grandmother loved these, we have them planted in our garden 🙂

wow

By the way, is probably not a time-lapse. The flower opens that quickly in person!!!

Yes we had these when I was a kid and one day I just happened to be standing outside looking at them when they started opening and I almost fell down, I’d seen flowers opening in time lapse on TV and had no idea any actually opened that fast.

And it still LOOKS FAKE in person, like it opens in such quick, staggered jerks that you would swear it’s stop motion animation.

Is there a black cultivar of this flower? Because the first time I saw the collars on Megamind’s villain costumes I thought of a painting of a flower that was shaped like this but black. I went looking for the painting but was not able to find it.

@joanhello2 it doesn’t look like there’s a black version of moonflowers, but it looks like they are related to morning glories, which do come in black, and which resemble moonflowers in shape. And they also look kind of similar to petunias and hollyhock flowers? I found a few Georgia O’Keefe paintings; are any of them the one you’re thinking of?

(Black Hollyhock, Blue Larkspur)

Black Petunia and White Morning Glory)

(Petunia)

OR there’s a black and white photograph of Georgia O’Keefe standing in front of a painting of moonflowers–the moonflowers are white, but maybe the black and white tricked your mind into remembering the flowers as black?

Interestingly, the wild/weed version of moonflowers are sometimes called bindweed, because of the way wraps around other plants and chokes them. It spreads and spreads and is amazingly difficult to get rid of.

You can’t get rid of it by pulling it up or tilling because the tiny pieces of plant that are broken up into the earth only end up propagating MORE bindweed. The only way to get rid of it is to repeatedly cut it down to the soil level until it runs out of photosynthesis energy and stops re-growing. 

And EVEN THEN it can lie in stasis in the soil for UP TO FIFTY YEARS.