What flower opens one night a year?
Queen of the night. This mysterious and majestic cactus flower blooms for only one night a year. For 364 nights out of the year, the night blooming cereus cactus (peniocereus greggi) looks like a pile of dead, gray vines. Queen of the night (peniocereus greggii) is a desert cactus native to texas, arizona and northern mexico. Its nickname evokes its elite status, a result of its beautiful, night-blooming, fragrant white flower. The flower is rarely seen in the wild, however, because it only survives for a few hours.