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                                              The Christmas Star from Madagascar
Picture
Star-shaped waxy-white orchid          Giant nocturnal hawk-moth

with a spectacular spur                      with a long proboscis
reaching almost a foot                       searching for sweet nectar
                                  In 1862
                                   Darwin
                                speculated.
                                   Darwin
                                was ridiculed
                                for his theory
                               of a pollinator
                                with a straw
                                  that long
                                 that could
                                   reach
                                  so deep.
                            Forty years later
                                   he was
                                proven right.
                                   In the
                                     soft
                                  tropical
                                    night
                                on the Great
                                  Red Island
                               the hawk-moth
                                    sucks
                              the sweet nectar
                                     of the
                                Christmas Star
                                        of
                                  Madagascar.



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