Dinner Plate Fig vases Heliconia schiedeana

Heliconia schiedeana

red-orange leaves that mature into deep green

Cordyline Caruba Black aka 'Dark and Stormy'

Feed in spring and autumn

Dinner Plate Fig vases Heliconia schiedeanaFicus 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