Dinner Plate Fig vases Heliconia schiedeana

Heliconia schiedeana

A spot sheltered from the wind is best to keep the broad lush foliage looking at its best as the leaves tend to tear in the strong wind

Palms are 800-1m tall

the plant is frequently but not always shaded by surrounding vegetation

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