Dracula blooming
There I was, with my camera around my neck, groping around the steamy hot Rare Plant House searching for a metal tag to identify this amazing flower and parachute-like petal extravaganza! And it was a Dog Day so I had my puppy Honey watching me, tipping her head to the right and left, curious.
The Dracula or White Bat Flower like white parachute-like petals and long filaments surrounding them. Inside these parachute petals are these amazing and large (this cluster is about 6 inches in diameter) purple flowers. Exotic hardly begins to describe this outrageous work of art!
The genus Tacca, which includes the Bat flowers, consists of 10 species of flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and south-eastern Asia. In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family Taccaceae, but the 2003 APG II system incorporates it into the family Dioscoreaceae. Taccaceae is native to Malaysia.
Tacca integrifolia, White Bat Flower, Dracula Flower, Flor de Murcielago
Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL
Dracula blooming
There I was, with my camera around my neck, groping around the steamy hot Rare Plant House searching for a metal tag to identify this amazing flower and parachute-like petal extravaganza! And it was a Dog Day so I had my puppy Honey watching me, tipping her head to the right and left, curious.
The Dracula or White Bat Flower like white parachute-like petals and long filaments surrounding them. Inside these parachute petals are these amazing and large (this cluster is about 6 inches in diameter) purple flowers. Exotic hardly begins to describe this outrageous work of art!
The genus Tacca, which includes the Bat flowers, consists of 10 species of flowering plants native to tropical regions of Africa, Australia, and south-eastern Asia. In older texts, the genus was treated in its own family Taccaceae, but the 2003 APG II system incorporates it into the family Dioscoreaceae. Taccaceae is native to Malaysia.
Tacca integrifolia, White Bat Flower, Dracula Flower, Flor de Murcielago
Windows to the Tropics, Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami FL