Dinner Plate Fig zamia The foliage gives off a

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

with pendulous flowers in summer

While it can be found in full sun in tropical regions it will do better in part shade

suited to sun or filtered sun

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

Dinner Plate Fig zamia The foliage gives off aFicus 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