Dinner Plate Fig zamia with pendulous flowers in summer

with pendulous flowers in summer

A hybrid variety that produces large fruit from December and through January

smooth-textured flesh and a rich

The foliage gives off a wonderful Cardamom-like scent when you rub or crush the leaves

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

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