Dinner Plate Fig zamia with pendulous flowers in summer

with pendulous flowers in summer

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

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

It is in this humid

suited to sun or filtered sun

Dinner Plate Fig zamia with pendulous flowers in summerFicus 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