This Cactus Opens Its Petals Only One Night a Year

Name: This Cactus Opens Its Petals Only One Night a Year
Uploaded: 2021-02-13
Duration: 152281
Description: For the female lesser long-nosed bats in the Pinacate Desert, food is scarce. One possible source of nutrients: pollen from the saguaro cactus, whose milk-white petals open up only one night a year.

For the female lesser long-nosed bats in the Pinacate Desert, food is scarce. One possible source of nutrients: pollen from the saguaro cactus, whose milk-white petals open up only one night a year. (02:32)