Dinner Plate Fig vases Feed in spring and autumn

Feed in spring and autumn

Cordyline Caruba Black aka 'Dark and Stormy'

slightly recurving pinnate leaves with stiff narrow leaflets

Palms are 800-1m tall

New leaves unfurl in a bright orange hue and gradually change to dark green as they age

Dinner Plate Fig vases Feed in spring and autumnFicus 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