A cactus grows in Mexico, where the ambient temperature can reach 40 degrees Celsius. Without flowers, it looks like a messy collection of oblong, thick green leaves.

This cactus only grows at night and only once a year

Then, one night, he opens his beautiful, eye-catching flowers. The bats smell the scent of the flowers from afar and fly at them. Because the flower has a gift for them. Tasty sweet nectar. They pull them out of their hearts, waving their wings with their long tongues. They also bring pollen. What they use to pollinate other flowers.

When the sun rises, the flower closes and languishes.

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