flowers pollinated at night have pleasant smell
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Night time flowering plants are typically white but have pleasing smell, as insects don't see in night time but get attracted to their smell. White is a good reflector of light and is a shade better seen at night by a variety of pollinators. Hence, white flowers bloom at night.
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Night flowering plants usually attract moths & other nocturnal pollinators. It makes sense why night blooming flowers are white, and mostly fragrant as well, because colorful pigments have no purpose to play at night. ... It's nature's win-win situation for plants as well as pollinating creatures
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Why Do Some Plants Smell Stronger at Night? Flowering plants depend on birds, insects, or the wind to move pollen from one flower to another. ... Plants that need to be pollinated by night-flying insects and bats smell stronger in the evening, when they are ready for pollination and when their pollinators are most active.