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a flower that opens at dusk and dies by noon, living for the night shift
means A common name for certain evening primroses (genus Oenothera), low-growing plants whose yellow flowers open in the evening or by night and fade quickly.
from A transparent English compound of "sun" and "drop" — the bright, dewdrop-like yellow blooms scattered across a plant read like fallen bits of sunlight. "Sun" goes back to Old English sunne and ultimately a Proto-Germanic root shared with German Sonne; "drop" likewise comes from Old English dropa, a globule of liquid. The name is one of several folk names for the evening primrose, sitting alongside "evening star" and the like.
- bloom time
- flowers unfurl in minutes at sunset, visibly
- one-day wonder
- each blossom lasts a single fleeting day
- yellow turncoat
- petals fade to orange-pink before they drop
- moth magnet
- night-blooming to lure sphinx moths for pollination
- evening primrose kin
- part of the Oenothera clan, mostly nocturnal
sundrop tomato — genetically modified tomato developed by sun world international in california, first commercialized in 1985
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