The flowers in the garden closed their petals.

Within hours, the flowers closed and several days later, Morren noticed vanilla pods beginning to form.

The flower opens for a short time in the late morning and closes by mid-afternoon.

Each flower opens up in the morning and closes late in the afternoon on the same day, never to re-open.

Finally the entire flower closes in on itself.

Each ephemeral flower opens in the evening and closes by the following morning.

The flowers would open and close, then the green fruits behind them would shrivel and turn brown.

The yellow flowers, nestled among the leaves of the vines that grew over the windows, had already closed their trumpets for the night.

These were always changing, as the flowers opened and closed in subtly different positions, so that the images were never still.

The flower opens just before dawn and closes at sunset every day for 6 to 8 days.