Hai'an City, Jiangsu Province, east China - July 15, 2019 (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Various of time-lapse video recording broad-leaved epiphyllum blossoming
2. Various of woman counting number of flowers
3. Various of broad-leaved epiphyllum flowers

A time-lapse video has caught the wondrous scene of a broad-leaved epiphyllum erupting into full bloom in east China's Jiangsu Province, with the marvelous flower blossoming only for a single night.

The footage, captured in Hai'an City, shows the 20-year-old broad-leaved epiphyllum breeding 53 white, light mint flowers on Monday evening.

Signs of the blossom started to show at around 19:00 as buds bulged little by little, and finally burst into to full bloom in the space of just a few hours.

At around 23:00, all 53 flowers came out and the air was permeated with a thick fragrance.

The broad-leaved epiphyllum prefers shadowy and wet places located at altitude of between 1,000 to 2,000 meters. The flowers can only be found during the fall and summer nights, and will wither after several hours. This characteristic means the flower is known as "beauty in moonlight" in China.