How To Care For A Black Bat Plant. Jungle is natural habitat of black bat flowers. Place your Bat Plant near a south-facing window with lots of indirect sunlight.
Water after planting to gently soak the soil without waterlogging your Tacca. Bat plants love humid environments and thrive in these conditions. Your Bat Plant should be flowering after two summers of growth.
When watering your Bat Plant be sure to water thoroughly allowing water to drain completely.
Using a liquid fertilizer suitable for orchids is appropriate applied every week or use a general slow release fertilizer. The soil should stay lightly moist all year round keeping in mind to prevent waterlogging as the rhizomes will rot easily. Black bat flowers scientifically known as Tacca chantrieri is a plant that belongs to the yam family. Of the rhizome and the leaves exposed above the soil.