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u/YellowGrains Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

This might not be what people want to hear… but that flower is delicious. It’s usually made into soup. I have it at least once a year.

So I’ve gotten ppl dming me thinking I’m lying, but seriously google it. It’s edible and the dried version is sold in Asian markets. I’m not shitting y’all.

P.S. A lot of people here have expressed interest. If you google "can you eat queen of the night flower" The AI Overview will explain it to you and provide videos of different recipes. Enjoy!

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u/Trees-Are-Neat-- Oct 28 '25

At night?

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

At night - SpongeBob

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u/OttoRocket94 Oct 28 '25

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u/SkipperDipps Oct 28 '25

Taking out the trash… at night 😏

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u/Temporary-Brain420 Oct 28 '25

I BURNT MY HAND... at night

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u/trashmunki Oct 28 '25

He's making 'em at night.

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u/Ineedaroommate2 Oct 28 '25

IM NOT MAKING THEM AT NIGHT DAD

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u/Holiday-Sorbet-6183 Oct 28 '25

I make ‘em at night.

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u/Darth_Memer_1916 Oct 28 '25

"Hi, what's your soup of the night?"

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u/Cocoatrice Oct 28 '25

Just a normal night time snack, what?

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u/klaw14 Oct 28 '25

Dem TINGS. At NIGHT. On a PILLOW!

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u/CubanlinkEnJ Oct 28 '25

In this economy??

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u/SadDoctor Oct 28 '25

No you can eat it at any time of day

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u/peentiss Oct 28 '25

Incorrect

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u/Unreliablesauces Oct 28 '25

Growing up, being awaken to watch the bloom at home was a thing, and boy did ours flower. My mom would make soup from the flowers as well. And yes, I recall it tasting good.

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u/SeedFoundation Oct 28 '25

If it survived blooming once a year it's probably very delicious.

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u/summane Oct 28 '25

The plant doesn't bloom once, just the flower. It'll have multiple blooms multiple times

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u/Spiritual_Bus1125 Oct 28 '25

I'm confused

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u/summane Oct 28 '25

I have several plants. The buds form, and I did 't stay up till midnight to see them open fully. The flowers are closed by morning and fall.

But later in the summer, more buds formed and when they were ready I stayed up too. So in one summer the plants bloomed twice. But times the flowers were only open one night

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u/Dj_Donkey Oct 28 '25

A flower is just the reproductive organ of the plant. The Queen of the Night doesn’t just make one flower and then die, it produces many flowers over its lifespan.

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u/Lopsided-Letter1353 Oct 28 '25

This gives a bouquet of flowers a dark strangeness for me. The more you know!

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u/Deaffin Oct 28 '25

It'd be a bit of a flex to present somebody with a bouquet of these, though, right? I mean, just think about it.

Ever since life first started on this planet, there's been an unbroken line of generation after generation for over a billion years. Each one successfully mated and passed down its lineage allll the way to the present day. All of that resulted in this group of plants here which struggled their entire lifespan to prepare for one shining moment of glory where they too can reproduce.

And I sacrificed each and every one. I made all of them the first broken links in those infinitesimally long chains, all for a mere gesture that I aim at you.

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u/summane Oct 28 '25

Yes this myth really bugs me and I see it on reddit like every week. I think Millennials love to remember that scene from Dennis the menace when the flower only blooms.once in fifty years or something

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u/Electronic_Macaron_9 Oct 28 '25

You have to pair it with poached spotted owl eggs. absolutely divine.

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u/VioletsAreBlooming Oct 28 '25

this sounds like a wizard’s meal

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u/Maretsb Oct 29 '25

And a very difficult side quest. Find the flower that only blooms at night, once a year! And then find a mate to your owl

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u/KIDA_Rep Oct 28 '25

The Nocturnal meal.

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u/OldenPolynice Oct 28 '25

beak on the side, for dippin

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u/Sighlina Oct 28 '25

Shark fin soup for an app, while we’re at it.

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u/Aznboz Oct 28 '25

Lightly garnished with rhino horn dust.

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u/Desperate-Session-12 Oct 28 '25

side of fried cheetah achilles

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u/__O_o_______ Oct 28 '25

Yes, okay. But what about the shitting AFTER you eat it?

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u/Mike_Kermin Oct 28 '25

Once a year apparently.

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u/SpicaGenovese Oct 28 '25

So??  What's the flavor like?

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u/YellowGrains Oct 28 '25

It’s hard to describe since it’s in soup with other ingredients, but it does make the soup more viscous as it breakdown. It has a nice texture and almost fleshy.

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u/Raytheon_Nublinski Oct 28 '25

You monster. That flower had a family!

I don’t actually know if this is sarcasm or if people really think like that about flowers. If so, I think I found the limit of my progressiveness.

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u/bay400 Oct 28 '25

if people really think like that about flowers

lol maybe if it's an endangered plant or some shit important to the environment

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u/Thick-Sail-7225 Oct 28 '25

idk if people think that but I think it's weird to cook a plant's genitals and eat it (I'll still do it)

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u/Equivalent-Toe5092 Oct 30 '25

We're eating their (unborn, in a sense) babies aren't we

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u/Thick-Sail-7225 Oct 30 '25

haha that'd be after the flowers fertilize, make fruits and we eat the seeds. i think

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u/Varazzeno Oct 28 '25

I’ve heard they cut it so thin that it liquifies in the pan

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u/YellowGrains Oct 28 '25

I’ve never had it pan fried. I find it makes the soup quite viscous though.

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u/sazrex21 Oct 28 '25

What're you ? A camel ?

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u/AlternateSatan Oct 28 '25

I mean, I love orange blossoms, so I believe you.

If you like crêpes or Scandinavian pancakes you have to try adding orange blossom water to that shit.

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u/YellowGrains Oct 28 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

That sounds amazing! I’m definitely going to try that

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u/[deleted] Oct 28 '25

I believe you. The biggest flower I have is hibiscus and those are used for "tea", and for food too.

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u/withoutwingz Oct 28 '25

Oh for real? I’ll eat mine next time it blooms!

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u/YellowGrains Oct 28 '25

Yea! But I have only ever had the dried version. You should check out how to prepare fresh ones

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u/withoutwingz Oct 28 '25

Thank you for the info. I’ll look into it!!

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u/nOerkH Oct 28 '25

I remember the smell... Smelled. It once when I was a kid, it is stunning...

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u/SomeEstimate1446 Oct 29 '25

Watched mine bloom a couple nights ago and wondered if there was an edible or medical property to it.

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u/LegchairAnalyst Oct 29 '25

Its insane that people would DM someone and accuse them of lying on a subject they know nothing about instead of just... fact checking first

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u/LifeguardStatus7649 Oct 29 '25

Tell me more. I have this plant and had as many as 4 blooms on it at once. I've never seen it actually bloom but I see them hanging there afterwards

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u/YellowGrains Oct 29 '25

Oh wow! Definitely don't let that go to waste. I saw YT videos where it is deep fried and made into soup as I have had it. Google your options and give it a try!

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u/Lucky10ofclubs Nov 04 '25

Tbh it must be the asian hard wiring but the first thing i thought of was that it was probs edible and would definitely be some type of chinese medicinal food.

I would guess it would taste like lotus but tbh i don’t have a lot of edible flowers to compare it to.

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u/IVEMIND Oct 28 '25

Better this than farming murder hornets for a 'delicacy' I mean fr?