Dinner Plate Fig cashew Although it is a fairly

Although it is a fairly rare plant and highly coveted

Hoya carnosa is the best-known and classic 'Wax Plant'

Or better still

nce hugely popular as a potted indoor palm

especially in Asia and the Caribbean

Dinner Plate Fig cashew Although it is a fairlyFicus 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