Tacca nivea
white bat flower seeds

 Tacca nivea, the white bat flower, with very showy white flowers that stand upright and look like a bat. The flowers appear in clusters of up to 30 flowers in summer. Tacca nivea's peculiar - whiskers - are thread-like leaves that hang down from the flowers and are up to 35 cm long.

Use Jiffy peat swell pots for sowing, let them swell in water and put them in a plastic pot. Alternatively, a commercially available sowing substrate can also be used.

Spread a few seeds on the peat well and cover thinly with the sowing substrate (about 2 mm).

Then place the plastic pot in a zip-lock bag - for a pot size of 6 cm, a zip-lock bag size 120 x 170 mm is recommended. Pour enough tap water with a few drops of universal fertilizer into the zip-lock bag so that a few mm of water remain after the substrate has been drawn up.

Location: on the window sill or in a mini greenhouse in partial shade, during the day the temperatures should be around 24 - 28 C, at night a little lower at 20 - 24 C. 

Price is for 5 seeds