See the blooming of a dahlia bud
Time-lapse video, filmed over four days, of the flowering of a dahlia (Dahlia species) bud.
Video by Neil Bromhall; music, Orchestra Gli Armonici/Musopen.org (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
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