Dinner Plate Fig vases Heliconia schiedeana

Heliconia schiedeana

use it as the perfect house or conservatory plant

Feed in spring and autumn

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

slightly recurving pinnate leaves with stiff narrow leaflets

Dinner Plate Fig vases Heliconia schiedeanaFicus 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