Bat Bat Flowers

See photo here ---> Understorey Darkness. Tacca chantrieri André, Cat's Whiskers or Black Bat Flower, Razak Walk, Taman Botani, Forestry Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM), Kepong, Malaysia | Flickr - Photo Sharing! (Not my photo)

Right.... I had my eye on this usual flower for a while now.

I've finally located some seeds :yess:. I also noticed the seeds themselves are bat shaped :D



Germination usually takes 1-9 months so I have to be patient :wallbang:

Wish me luck :D

 

Good luck Hadeda with the seeds. Keep us updated on progress please.

 

Our roders had one of these a few years ago ...

http://gardenerscorner.co.uk/forum/other-plants/12250-bat-plant.html

... do you still have it, my Lovely?

 

Good luck Hadeda with your experiment.
Here is a Tacca Nivea flowering
compagniadelgiardinaggio-it-lukus

 

nice - was that in the wild, shiney?

 

Those are such a neat looking plant!!

 

Thanks all :D I'll certainly update the progress. I planted them yesterday. Hopefully within a month(I wish) some will pop up :D

Nice pictures :D

 

Oh lordy - I've only just joined the forum and I'm going to get a rep as a doom monger..........

I have tried several times to germinate Tacca chantrieri and failed. I've scarified, stratified and all other suggestions from other forums. The upshot is that the seed must be fresh.

So I wish you good luck (I sincerely do).

On the plus side they are easy to grow and bloom once germinated! I know because I cheated and bought a plant - reduced to fifteen quid as the blooms were over, but two months later two flowers stems emerged!

 

I don't hold any hope for germinating or keeping them here ... let alone the UK .. so boa sorte from me ...

 

They grow well enough indoors. But, and it is a big but, they need space. Mine spans one and a half metres!