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Blooming beauty


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  • | 4:00 a.m. June 14, 2012
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Siesta Key resident Joe Volpe captured this dragon fruit in bloom, a rare sight, this weekend during a midnight rainstorm on Siesta Key.

“We started with 13 buds but only eight flowered,” Volpe said. “Four one night, four the next; and now we wait.”

Three years ago Volpe’s neighbor, Lyette Robetti, gave him the dragon fruit cutting.

According to Volpe, the flower is about 9 inches in diameter and only blooms for one night.

 

 

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