Dinner Plate Fig bananas The Alocasia lauterbachiana displays unique

The Alocasia lauterbachiana displays unique colouring with its dark green leaf face and deep purple underside

semi-deciduous shrub bearing a mass of lilac-pink flowers from late Spring and through to Autumn

this palm prefers partial shade and will take quite a few degrees of frost

These emerge from a stipular sheath up to 35cm long

Dinner Plate Fig bananas The Alocasia lauterbachiana displays uniqueFicus dammaropsis, also called Kapiak in Tok Pisin, 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, are edible but rarely eaten except as famine food. They are pollinated by the tiny