White Fig (Ficus Virens) Fruits On A Branch : (pix Sanjiv Shukla) Royalty-Free Stock Photography

White fig (Ficus virens) is a plant of the genus Ficus found in India, southeast Asia, through Malaysia and into Northern Australia. Known as Pakad or pilkhan in India its fruits are edible like many figs. It is a medium-sized tree. It is a fig tree belonging to the group of trees known as strangler figs, which is because its seeds can germinate on other trees and grow to strangle and eventually kill the host tree. This is a very massive tree in which the size of the crown can sometimes exceed the height of the tree.