Tan hua flower

In India it is called Brahma Kamalam, named after the Hindu god of creation, Lord Brahma. It is also believed that the wishes of People who pray to God while the flower is blooming will be fulfilled. The Chinese chengyu (four character idiom) 曇花一現 (tan hua yi xian) uses this flower (tan-hua; 曇花) to describe someone who has an impressive but very brief moment of glory, like a "flash in a pan", since the flower can take a year to bloom and only blooms over a single night. Therefore someone…

In India it is called Brahma Kamalam, named after the Hindu god of creation, Lord Brahma. It is also believed that the wishes of People who pray to God while the flower is blooming will be fulfilled. The Chinese chengyu (four character idiom) 曇花一現 (tan hua yi xian) uses this flower (tan-hua; 曇花) to describe someone who has an impressive but very brief moment of glory, like a "flash in a pan", since the flower can take a year to bloom and only blooms over a single night. Therefore someone…

Dama de Noche. Fragrant Flower that blooms at night.

Check out this collection of Queen of the Night or Kadupul flowers or Tan Hua, which is the world's most expensive flower, bearing no price tag at all.

Queen Of The Night 月下美人 from my little garden YASHICA AUTO YASHINON-DX 50mm / f1.4 black/silver M42 © 2020 M's photography Takashi MATSUZAWA All rights reserved. Please don't freely use this photograph on Tumblr, Blog, Facebook, Twitter and others.

Night Beauty

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