Are The Stars Out Tonight?

I apologize for continuing to post photos of this cactus, but its blooming is so spectacular and the history that the plant and I share combine to make me feel obliged to honor it.

These two buds were showing signs of splaying earlier in the day, so I knew to expect blooms tonight. In this blooming cycle, the third this summer, the plant produced in excess of twenty blooms. With the exception of one night when four flowers opened, they seem to splay in groups of three. So far, sixteen flowers have opened this week.


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Here the two blooms can be seen together after they have fully opened.
A closer view of the latest blooms.
This is a beautiful single-flowering specimen.













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