Monday, January 30, 2012

Does anyone know the name of a flower that blooms at night?

Night-flowering Plants

Evening Primroses: (Oenothera ) are perennials with sweetly scented blossoms of soft white, pink and bright yellow that open each evening.

Moonflower: (Ipomoea alba ) is a night-blooming relative of the morning glory that perfumes the garden with five- to six-inch white flowers.

Angel's Trumpet: (Datura innoxia ) produces fragrant, six-inch white flowers that appear from midsummer until frost on this viney annual. Note that this plant is poisonous and should be kept away from children.

Night Phlox: (Phlox 'Midnight Candy' ) at dusk, flowers open to release a honey/almond/vanilla fragrance.

Evening Stock: (Matthiola incana ) has small pink or purplish flowers that are not showy, but emit an intoxicating fragrance at night.

Four O'Clock: (Mirabilis jalapa ) is a sweetly fragrant annual with colorful trumpet-shaped flowers that open in late afternoon and release a jasmine-like perfume.

Nottingham Catchfly: (Silene nutans ) offers a scent reminiscent of hyacinths. The flowers open on three successive nights before fading.

Night Blooming Cereus: (Selenicereus ) is known for its large, fragrant, night-blooming white flowers. This cactus is not hardy below 55°F, so grow it in a container and bring indoors for the winter.

Daylilies: (Hemerocallis ) that bloom at night include 'Moon Frolic' and 'Toltec Sundial'.

Yucca: (Yucca filamentosa ) bears flowers that are open both day and night.



Night-fragrant Plants

Flowering Tobacco: (Nicotiana ) is a lovely annual with long, trumpet-like blooms valued for their intense evening fragrance.

Night Gladiolus: (Gladiolus tristus ) features creamy yellow blossoms with an intensely spicy night fragrance.

August Lily: (Hosta ) produce waxy, trumpet-shaped flowers with a honey scent.

Fragrant Columbine: (Aquilegia fragrans ) offers creamy white flowers with a rich honeysuckle scent.

Pinks: (Dianthus plumarius ) display pale pink flowers smelling of cloves.

Fairy Lily: (Chlidanths fragrans ) bears yellow, fragrant flowers on stalks in mid-summer.



Thats the best I could do. Good luck.

Does anyone know the name of a flower that blooms at night?
there are moon flowers, which is basically a white morning glory type vine

Four o'clocks (bloom late afternoon through evening fragrant in the evening)

CasaBlanca lillies are great , big white and fragrant .They stay open day and night until the bloom fades.
Reply:Here in the Philippines, there's a white flower that blooms and have nice scent only at night. We call it dama de noche (spanish) or in english it is translated as queen of the night.
Reply:The moon flower. It's similar to the morning glory (which only blooms in the daytime), but the moon flower only blooms in the evening.
Reply:there are many.



one is the moon vine

relative to morning glory, fragrant



another is the night blooming cerus

blooms only once a year and is also fragrant
Reply:Our cactus flowers used to when I was on the farm.
Reply:Moon Flower, they smell great!


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