Moon flowers (updated)

Moonflower at dawn, Oct 10th.
Monday Sept 27 was our second rainfall this month, bringing us 0.2″, prompting this evening’s tripling (by 7:30pm) of our previous record of the number of moon flowers open at one time.
Tuesday’s moon flower at 7:10am, Sept 21:

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(Also see references on Indiana Univ and, of course, Wikipedia ) web pages.

See my Youtube video of both pre- and post-sunrise shots of our Sept 18 moon flower followed by the same of our Sept 19 moon flower. (The sun comes up from behind the flowers.) After Youtube starts, you can activate the full-screen option by clicking an icon in lower right which looks like one of these: