White Bat Flower
Tacca nivea
(TAK-kah) (NIV-ee-uh)
Synonyms: Bat Head Lily, Devil's Whiskers
This is the strangest flower I have seen blooming in quite a while. It was flowering in the Wave Hill Conservatory last week. These pictures were taken with the Nikon Coolpix P6000. The close up was taken with in the macro mode, which allows for extreme close focusing (less than an inch, 0.8 cm).
There wasn’t a whole lot of information on the internet about this flower. It does seem to grow from seed as there were several sites offering seeds. Apparently this white form is a little more rare that the black Bat Flower (Tacca chantrieri).
Here is a link to the best web page I found on Tacca:
Top Tropicals.com
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7 comments:
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... "Delicate curls"
interesting!!
Looks exotic!
Here's my share for Today's Flower.
Very special and very pretty!
Very unusual flower and name. :)
That flower looks like it wants to say something. Neat color, too.
I agree with you, a most interesting bloom. Wonder who its pollenators are?
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