Dinner Plate Fig vases large almond shaped leaves grow

large almond shaped leaves grow on long vines which will eventually put out heavily scented clusters of pale pink/creamy star shaped flowers

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

Heliconia schiedeana

slightly recurving pinnate leaves with stiff narrow leaflets

use it as the perfect house or conservatory plant

Dinner Plate Fig vases large almond shaped leaves growFicus 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