• A truly epic, massive foliage plant with deciduous leaves over a meter wide.
• Large branching flower structures bear creamy-coloured globe-shaped flowers.
• Vigorous and easy to grow in any soil, best in part shade and shelter from strong winds.

Massive, prehistoric-looking, and architectural. Unique and essential for Jungle-style gardens, growing quickly to small tree-like proportions with deeply lobed leaves over a meter wide. It develops a woody stem with suckers produced around its base and forms stands of lush, hand-shaped deciduous leaves. Even young plants, and suckers no more than a meter high can bear huge leaves, so underplanting around them can be tricky. Small suckers can easily be removed to allow for other plants to be added to a composition around them, or they can be left to form a spreading primordial-looking copse. The growing tip and leaf bases below it are all covered in fine rust-colored hairs, as are the undersides of the leaves, which can cause mildly itchy skin when working with the plants.