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Therefore, hoping to observe the complete blossoming, I noted in 2010 and 2011 that in the evening the bloom was taking the aspect of the photo above. Thinking that I had won, I came back two or three hours later and I noted with spite that the bloom was starting to fade.

As the assumption of a blossoming started and finished in between my two visits two to three hours apart, did not seem very probable to me, I concluded from it that the plant was not old enough and could not get a complete blossoming.

The things were in fact still a little more complicated. The year 2012 brought me the proof of this.

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