Black Bat Tacca Flower. However there is a recently introduced species known as the white bat flower because its bracts are white. 29012021 Black bat flower the most common type of Tacca chantieri that can be easily found and grown indoor or outdoor.
Tacca Chantrieri is native to Southeast Asia and is often referred to as cats wiskers voodoo flowers or devil flowers. Black bat flower plants are also known as cats whiskers voodoo flowers and devil flowers. When Polynesian people left Southeastern Asia to populate the wide islands of the Pacific Ocean they took with them T.
Black bat flower scientific nameTacca chantrieri is a bulbous plants of the Department Taccaceae Tacca genus native to India.
Reaching lengths of up to 38cm 15 inch broad 20cm 8 inch wide the smooth lanceolate leaves with angular pleats are dark green with an under surface color of grayish green. Tacca chantrieri is a clump forming herbaceous perennial bearing exotic log stemmed flowers. Carousel exudes a bizarre combination of sterile flower bract black. Exotic looking purple-black blooms with ruffled wings and long hanging whisker-like filaments hang 10-28 inches long resembling a bat in flight.