Black Bat Tacca Chantrieri Whiskers Flower. Bat Flower Cats Whiskers Devil Flower Tacca integrifolia chantreieri. However there is a recently introduced species known as the white bat flower because its bracts are.
This is Tacca chantrieri also known as Bat Flower Cats Whiskers Devil Flower. The flowers are black and up to 30cm 12 inch across. It may even make you the envy of your gardening friends when the cluster of dark purple almost black flowers emerge to be.
This amazing plant starts out with a green bloom as a pup but as it grows older the bloom turns purple black maroon brown and bronze.
Botanical name of the plant is Tacca chantrieri and belongs to the plant family Dioscoreaceae. Its growing in understory forest floors with filtered lights and. Spook your friends with this dark character Tacca chantrieri Black also known as the black Bat Flower plant. The flower is dark purple to black and up to 10 inches across with long whisker like constructions that drape down from the flower sometimes as long as the plant is tall.