The dinner plate fig Ficus dammaropsis Diels (family Moraceae) is tropical fig tree with giant leaves. It is native to New Guinea. The tree can reach 4-10 m tall. The thick leaves are deeply veined and wavy. It is cauliflorus the figs can get to be the size of a baseball with numerous red or yellow coriaceous lateral bracts so it is very similar to a dragon fruit. The general usefulness of this plant is as an ornamental plant but the fruit and young leaves of which are eaten by indigenous people of New Guinea.