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Tacca palmata is a tuberous geophyte in the Dioscoreaceae family, native to wet tropical forests of Southeast Asia and Malesia. It grows from an underground tuber and needs warm, humid, shaded conditions with consistent moisture.
Tacca palmata is a plant in the Dioscoreaceae family, native to Borneo, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Guinea, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatra, Thailand, and Vietnam.
It was first described by Carl Ludwig Blume in 1827.
Tacca ampliplacenta · Tacca ankaranensis · Black bat flower · Batplant · Polynesian arrowroot · Arrowroot
[Contains information from Leaf Area Index (LAI) and Heritage Trees from data.gov.sg (National Parks Board), made available under the terms of the Singapore Open Data Licence version 1.0]
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Tacca palmata by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
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.
