Last fall I picked up an interesting plant at the local community yard sale. I managed to keep it alive...and it is now blooming! The plant is called the Black Bat Plant (sometimes orchid, a misnomer as Mr. A-(I)n-stein tells me it is in the yam family!) It naturally lives in the understory of rainforests in SE Asia.
The black bat flower resembles a bat, from some angles, and has whiskers like a cat. It often blooms around Halloween, adding credence to its common name.
This plant appears to like its location - in partial shade and in an area with high humidity - certainly not a problem in this area of Florida!
This is quite unusual. I do like it.
ReplyDeleteI'm just thrilled I could keep it alive to see it blossom again!
DeleteWow, that is gorgeous! I tend to fall in love with flowers that love tropical environments. Living in Colorado makes growing any of the flowers I fall in love with nearly impossible.
ReplyDeleteYup, anything that relishes humidity is certainly not going to thrive, if it can even survive, in CO - even inside it is so dry. We had a whole-house humidifier when we were in Black Forest, but the heavy mineral content of the water killed that pretty quickly!
DeleteInteresting plant!
ReplyDeleteCan you imagine having a bed full of these? Wow!
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