WWSBSARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) - People will be gathering at Marie Selby Botanical Gardens tonight for an expected appearance of the “Queen of the Night,” a cactus that blooms only once a year.
The plant is a selenicereus, an epiphytic, lithophytic and terrestrial cactus genus found in Central America, the Caribbean and northern South America, Selby Gardens noted in a news release.
On a single night each year, as twilight moves to night, spectacular blossoms open up all along the length of the plant for a few brief hours. As dawn sets in on the horizon, the petals close up before another year passes for a repeat performance.
A watch party is set from 7-11 p.m. Thursday at the Hobart K. Swan and Janis F. Swan Live Oak Arrival Court, at Selby Gardens’ downtown Sarasota campus, 1534 Mound Street, t
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