The Night–Blowing Cereus from The Temple of Flora

The Night–Blowing Cereus from The Temple of Flora

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Though his attempt to publish The Temple of Flora bankrupted him, Robert Thornton earned enduring fame for his efforts. Of the lugubrious setting for what we know as the night-blooming cereus, he said, “in the night-blowing Cereus… you have the moon playing on the dimpled water, and the turret-clock points XII, the hour at night when this flower is in its full expanse.”