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Tuesday, 15 August 2006 |
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Night Flowering Catchfly or Silene noctiflora opens its flowers only at dusk. It produces scented white or pink colored flowers. The fragrance is strong enough to attract insects like moth. This is important because the plant doesn't have the markings and the color like the Day-blooming catchflies. The flowers grow in clusters and can be up to an inch in width. The plant flowers from July to September. It is found in Canada and in places which are east of the Mississippi.
Bouncing Bet, Hedge Pink, Old Maid's Pink or Soapwort are different names for Saponaria officinalis. It is also known as Fuller's Herb or Bruisewort. The plant grows up to two feet in length. It flowers from June to September. It grows well on the banks and roadsides. The flowers are an inch wide. These white or ping colored flowers is also fragrant the fragrance being maximum at dusk. The flowers are mostly double and form a cluster at the stem end. Its leaves are about an inch in width. They are oval shaped and can have five ribs. The flower also has a seed pod capsule. The capsule in opened slightly at the top. The plant can grow anywhere though it was brought from Europe initially. Numerous seeds and underground runners are sent by this plant so that it propagates well. If its leaves are crushed and whirled around in water, soap like lather is formed.
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