Dinner Plate Fig vases the plant is frequently but

the plant is frequently but not always shaded by surrounding vegetation

Feed in spring and autumn

large almond shaped leaves grow on long vines which will eventually put out heavily scented clusters of pale pink/creamy star shaped flowers

Palms are 800-1m tall

red-orange leaves that mature into deep green

Dinner Plate Fig vases the plant is frequently butFicus dammaropsis, or Dinner Plate Fig, is a tropical fig tree with huge pleated leaves 60cm across and up to 90cm in length on petioles as much as 35cm long and 2. 5cm thick. These emerge from a stipular sheath up to 35cm long, one of the largest of any dicotyledon. The fruit, is the world's largest fig (syconia), up to 15 cm across, and are edible but rarely eaten except as famine food. They are pollinated by the tiny fig wasp Ceratosolon abnormis