Black bat flower
വവ്വാൽപ്പൂവ്
Tacca chantrieri André
- light
- —
- water
- —
- tall
- 75 cm
- wide
- —
Dioscoreaceae
Also called Cat's whiskers, Devil flower
Formerly Clerodendrum esquirolii, Schizocapsa breviscapa, Schizocapsa itagakii, Tacca esquirolii, and 7 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Rhizomatous geophyteKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Assam to S. China and Pen. MalaysiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Height
- 51 cm to 99 cmRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Flowers
- Purple, green, brownRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: light, spread, water, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (9)
- Bavarian
- Fleedermausbleamé
- German
- Fledermausblume
- Finnish
- takka, Tummaviiksikki
- Lithuanian
- Rudoji karčiuotė
- Dutch
- Vleermuisbloem
- Polish
- Krąpiel Chantriera
- Chinese
- 箭根, 箭根薯, 箭根薯(老虎须)
- Simplified Chinese
- 大叶屈头鸡, 箭根薯, 蒟蒻薯
- Malayalam
- വവ്വാൽപ്പൂവ്
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 2.0
- 3D model: Tacca chantrieri (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.