Moonflower LIVE CAM: Thousands log in to watch UK s first bloom - how to watch
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Rare Moonflower cactus blooms in the UK for the first time
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image captionAfter 11 days of being watched, the camera-shy flower was getting closer to blooming, the garden said
The long wait for a rare Amazonian cactus to bloom has attracted interest from around the world.
Cambridge University Botanic Garden, where it is growing, believed the moonflower
Selenicereus wittii would be the first to flower in the UK.
Thousands of people have viewed a webcam which was trained on the plant about 11 days ago, but it has still not bloomed.
Anticipation is high as it will flower at night - just once - for 12 hours.
The specimen was acquired from Bonn Botanic Garden in Germany in 2015 and was attached to a water chestnut tree, where it climbed 12ft (3.5m) above the ground in a glasshouse before putting out its first bud.