Oak Street resident Michael Bowles has a most unusual plant. It's an exotic bat plant (Tacca Chantrieri) and was in full bloom this fall with two black, bat-shaped flowers. The flowers are complete ...

Nature's artistry is showcased through plants that mimic animals. From the bat flower's dark, wing-like blooms to the parrot flower's beak-shaped sepal, these botanical wonders capture the imagination ...

A bat and a carnivorous plant in Borneo enjoy an unusual, mutually beneficial relationship, according to a new paper. The bat roosts and relieves itself in the plant's prey-trapping pitchers, feeding ...

BATS roost in big groups in caves. Wrong! If you’re a Hardwicke’s woolly bat, you prefer to sleep in a more luxurious – and private – place. Kerivoula hardwickii roosts inside tropical pitcher plants.

This book provides a comprehensive treatment of all known bat-dispersed plants in the New World tropics and covers a total of 549 species in 191 genera from 62 plant families. It places a special ...