Xaxim

Very nice !

Beautiful! looks a bit like a 'Tree Fern' not sure if it is though.

Hi Angie, I agree with you, looking the pictures of other GOY members it leads me to think it is a Tree Fern. Googling it I found out that in Europe it is a different genera, maybe some Botany expertise would be able to tell the differences.
What i found out about xaxims is: Division- Pteridophyta, Class - Pteridopsida, Order - Cyatheales; Family - Dicksoniaceae, Genera - Dicksonia, Species - Dicksonia sellowiana

It is indeed one of the tree ferns great detective work Aleyna.

This is huge !!! It must be ancient !

Youre right Flcrazy.....as far as i know it grows around 1 to 2 inches/year.

A study performed by Santa Catarina university in an 1,8 hectare area of natural tropical forest, where were analised 1.119 plants above 1.29m high, during 2 years revealed a 69.8% of plants growing around 5 inches in height and one inch in diameter.
The on in the pictures was about three times my height, I'm 1,78m tall.

Oh wow! Mine is NOT like that! ha ha

huge huh? ... well they are there for centuries :)