Bombacopsis glabrous

Family: baobab family. It is also found in tropical Africa.

This is an evergreen shrub or a small tree with huge whitish-yellowish flowers. By night they open, their petals fold back and curl outward, revealing the glossy rays of numerous white stamens. Among them is a gynoecium of the same length, ending in a 5-lobed stigma. The flowers are visible in the dark and have a faint scent, which attracts bats that visit them for nectar. To deter crawling insects—nectar thieves—the flower produces a "distracting" secretion, released by five glands located on the outside of the base of the calyx. Living for only one night, the flowers have fallen by morning, leaving only the calyx protecting the developing fruit.