Dinner Plate Fig vases Feed in spring and autumn

Feed in spring and autumn

slightly recurving pinnate leaves with stiff narrow leaflets

the plant is frequently but not always shaded by surrounding vegetation

Cordyline Caruba Black aka 'Dark and Stormy'

red-orange leaves that mature into deep green

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