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Lilies & Nocturnal Seduction. There’s a word for that and it’s a silly, fun, lovely word…..

By Jenks Farmer | September 26, 2015 | 2

As nights warm up, a flashlight reveals the fluttering cloud above dark lily fields. Millions of moths.  The crinum lilies invite them. Daytime those moths hunker down in the straw mulch.  But something more than shifting light calls them up from below. If you had a slow-motion camera and a fragrance detector, you could see…

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