Dinner Plate Fig zamia giving a stunning colourful display

giving a stunning colourful display to any garden

It is in this humid

A really worthwhile and easy addition to your garden and homegrown fresh food supply

it is perfect for adding a pop of colour to garden beds

with pendulous flowers in summer

Dinner Plate Fig zamia giving a stunning colourful displayFicus 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