Shipping notice: These are soft plants with leaves that can naturally split due to the breeze or bumps.A beautiful intact specimen will be sent direct to your door but some minor battlescarscan be expected after its journey both now… and forever. It’s all part of this plant’s charm.

Light Requirements: Indoor grown specimens – these require acclimatisation to the outdoors to avoid wind and sun damage. Bright Indirect Light isideal, handles part-day direct sun and tolerates more sun with age.

Moisture & Soil Requirements: Must have evenly moist soil with good drainage in warm seasons – never soggy soil. Dial back watering frequency in winter unless you have dry air inside from air conditioning or heaters. Mist new leaves and maintain soil moisture while new leaves emerge so to avoid them sticking to themselves in dry air. Let this plant partly dry out between watering, the top 5cm or so can be dry before requiring water. If in doubt, use a moisture metre.

Growth & Nutrients: Large banana-like leaves, clumping growth habit, trunks develop over time butusually when planted outdoors.Can handle dry spells.Suits large apartments or homes with high ceilings and lots of light. Outdoors these plants do well when protected from wind and frost. To limit leaves splitting, only plant in a sheltered courtyard or against a sunny wall. Aggressive root system so keep this plant away from water pipes. Feed with a general-purpose fertiliser for containers from the start of spring each year to autumn when growth slows down.

Temperature, Humidity & Ambient requirements: Prefers warm, humid environments inside but tolerates a range of humidity levels. Humidity aids the leaves unfurling correctly.

Toxicity: Mildly toxic to pets and people.