White Bat Plant

How many times did you glance at the white bat plant?

White bat plants are a species of relatively large flowering plants, notable for their blooms that have a particularly strange appearance.
‘White bat plants’ are also known as ‘giant bat plants’, ‘giant batflowers’, ‘purple batflowers’, ‘white batflowers’ and ‘cat whiskers plants’.
The scientific name of the white bat plant is Tacca integrifolia and it is from the family Dioscoreaceae, the family of yams.
White bat plants are native to Southeast Asia, and they grow from rhizomes, in both tropical and subtropical habitats.
The flowers of white bat plants tend to resemble the face of a bat, featuring a purple, plum or brown main flower colour, white whisker-like appendages and large white with purple upper bracts.

White bat plants grow to be roughly 60 to 122 centimetres (24 to 48 inches) in height and their whiskers can grow as long as 71 centimetres (28 inches).
White bat plants are perennials that tend to die off in the winter months, and they grow best in partial or full shade.
Typically, white bat plants are grown for ornamental purposes, however they can be hard to obtain, and also difficult to care for.
White bat plants usually bloom during warm months, generally in spring and summer, with up to eight flowers blooming per plant each year.
The normally large, glossy green leaves of white bat plants, can turn black when the temperature is too cold.

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