General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Partial or Dappled Shade
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 10a -1.1 °C (30 °F) to +1.7 °C (35 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 11
Plant Height: 20 inches indoors, 4 feet outdoors
Leaves: Evergreen
Other: corrugated
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: Bi-Color: white and purple
Other: whitish involucral bracts and long thread-like bracts surround umbels of small dark purple flowers
Bloom Size: 6"-12"
Flower Time: Year Round
Underground structures: Rhizome
Propagation: Other methods: Division
Other: rhizomes
Containers: Suitable in 3 gallon or larger
Needs repotting every 2 to 3 years
Needs excellent drainage in pots

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Common names
  • White Bat Flower
  • Bat Plant
  • White Batflower

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Location: My Garden
Date: 2016-11-04
Location: Mexico City, Mexico
Date: June
Location: Orlando 
Date: Fall
Taken at Harry P. Leu Gardens
Location: Conservatory, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor
Date: 2013-08-14
Tacca integrifolia - Both the light brown (originally white) droo
Uploaded by Gleni
Location: Sarasota, FL
Date: 2016-09-15
At Selby Gardens
Location: Conservatory, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor
Date: 2013-08-14
Dioscoreaceae:  Tacca integrifolia - flowers and foliage.  The ac
Location: Conservatory, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor
Date: 2013-08-14
Tacca integrifolia - Once the large white bracts dry up, the deve
Location: Conservatory, Matthaei Botanical Gardens, Ann Arbor
Date: 2013-08-14
Tacca integrifolia - large leaves, borne singly on long stems.  H

Taken at Rawlings Conservatory, Druid Hill Park, Baltimore MD. 06
Location: Sarasota, FL
Date: 2016-09-15
At Selby Gardens
Location: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, FL, USA
Date: 2008-01-03
Photo courtesy of: scottzona
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: September 2016
Location: NYBG 
Date: 2022-06-14
Location: NYBG 
Date: 2022-06-14
Location: Sarasota, FL
Date: 2016-09-15
At Selby Gardens
Location: Southwest Florida
Date: September 2016
Location: Rawlings Conservatory. Baltimore, Md
Date: 06/14/2019
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Bat Flower by justmollie Nov 14, 2016 3:01 PM 2

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