Garden Blog - Top Tropicals

Date: 14 Jan 2026

Did you know that Tacca is a cat?

Tacca plants and Cats

Tacca plants and Cats

🐈 Did you know that Tacca is a cat?



That’s probably the real evolutionary secret no botanist will admit! Those whiskers? Pure marketing genius from nature.
Cats had it figured out first — look mysterious, add long elegant whiskers, and everyone falls in love.
Tacca just took notes and said, “Alright, I can work with that!
Continue reading: Tacca wants to be a cat! - and everyone loves cats!

Tacca colors: Black, White, Green:


Tacca nivea - White Tacca
Tacca chantrieri - Black Tacca
Tacca leontopetaloides - Green Tacca

🛒 Add Get your own Bat Head Lily Tacca

📚 Learn more:

Plant Facts

Tacca chantrieri
Bat Head Lily, Bat Flower, Devil Flower, Black Tacca
USDA Zone: 9-11
Small plant 2-5 ftShadeRegular waterOrnamental foliageUnusual color
  • Tacca Lily in Plant Encyclopedia
  • Perfect Halloween plant: Black Bat Lily (Tacca)
  • When plants cross into the Gothic: the Darker Bat Lily
  • What is the rarest Tacca?
  • The mystery of the White Bat Lily - the plant with wings and whiskers
  • A flying bat with whiskers
  • The rarest Green Tacca - Tacca leontopetaloides
  • When Bat Head Devil Flower is in bloom
  • Bat Head - Devil Flower

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