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Ficus dammaropsis, also called Dinner Plate Fig, is a tropical fig tree from Papua New Guinea with very large 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, are edible but rarely eaten except as famine food. They are pollinated by the tiny fig wasp Ceratosolon abnormis. The young leaves are pickled or cooked and eaten as a vegetable by Papua New Guinea people.
The Whangarei quarry gardens have an example of this plant. ‘The round ‘fruit’ which can be seen year-round in Northland is in fact a special type of flower called a ‘syconium’. These amazing trees need a specific wasp to pollinate them however, so we never see their mature fruit in NZ.’
Common name: Kapiak, dinner-plate fig, highland breadfruit.
Nic grow this variety from ‘air layering’
Anthurium Coriaceum -Paddle Leaf
