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 ...

A well-named plant that evokes a Halloween atmosphere from late autumn into summer is bat flower, also known as Dracula flower. Though just 2 feet tall, the species (Tacca chantrieri) packs plenty of ...

In a new study published this month in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers with The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio have pinpointed the cancer-fighting ...

Bats sometimes get a bad rap, but these fascinating facts show how they pollinate plants, control insects and thrive in the ...

Just as some flowers use bright colors to attract insect pollinators, other plants may use sound to lure in nectar-eating bats. One rain-forest vine has a dish-shaped leaf located above a cluster of ...

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 ...

Researchers convened July 25-29 at the Botany & Mycology 2009 meeting in Snowbird, Utah. Presented work included updates on some not-so-welcome plant visitors and a bat-plaguing fungus menace.