This weird plant has created a considerable amount of interest in recent years. When this plant was first introduced into cultivation from the depths of Far Eastern forests at the turn of the century, it was probably grown as a rather splendid, Anthurium-like, foliage plant. However, nowadays it is for the strange heads of dark brownish-purple, almost black in fact, flowers that the Bat Plant is grown. Sombre enough to be out of place even at a funeral, these strange and sinister flowers, with their almost grotesque, 12 in. long, shoe-lace-like attachments, are quite unlike any other and are going to excite, at the very least, curiosity in all that see it. 2 ft. Packet of 15 seeds.
Classification:
Greenhouse, Perennial
Price:
£3.35 per packet
Guide prices for information only: Euros: € 3.93 US Dollars: $ 4.99