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Tacca integrifolia
Also called White Bat Flower
Tacca integrifolia is a tropical rhizomatous herb from the Dioscoreaceae family, grown for its large leaves and unusual white, bat-like flowers. It needs warm, humid, shaded conditions similar to a rainforest understorey.
Tacca integrifolia, also known as the white batflower or the black lily, is a species of flowering plant in the family Dioscoreaceae. It is native to tropical and subtropical rainforests in hilly regions of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Indochina, the Malay Peninsula, Sumatra, Java and eastern China.
It grows in the understorey of humid primary and secondary rainforests. The substrates it grows in are rocky soil and sandy soil underneath leaf litter.
In the Malay Peninsula, its leaves are dried to make cigarette wrappers.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
