Kim Taylor / Aerial root structure of Weeping Fig tree (Ficus benjamina). Asia

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / 1000 year old grove of Banyan fig trees (Ficus benghalensis) Tongbiguan Nature Reserve, Dehong prefecture, Yunnan province, China, May.

Staffan Widstrand / Wild Wonders of China / 1000 year old grove of Banyan fig trees (Ficus benghalensis) Tongbiguan Nature Reserve, Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan province, China, May 2017.

Axel Gomille / Peacock (Pavo cristatus) resting on large Banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis), Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India.

David Pattyn / Indian banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) in jungle habitat, Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India, May

David Pattyn / Indian banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis) in jungle habitat, Ranthambhore National Park, Rajasthan, India, May

Dr. Gertrud Neumann-Denzau / Hindu shrine of goddess Sitala overgrown by the roots of an Indian banyan tree (Ficus benghalensis), West Bengal, India. January.

Dr. Gertrud Neumann-Denzau / Historical building in Ishwaripur, overgrown by an Indian banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis), Bangladesh. January 2010.

Roland Seitre / Banyan fig (Ficus benghalensis) Touaourou mission, Yate, South Province, New Caledonia

Roland Seitre / Banyan fig (Ficus benghalensis) Touaourou mission, Yate, South Province, New Caledonia

Thomas Marent / Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina) showing strangling air roots, Tangkoko Nature Reserve, northern Sulawesi, Indonesia

Thomas Marent / Weeping Fig (Ficus benjamina) and Woka Palm (Livistona rotundifolia), Tangkoko Nature Reserve, northern Sulawesi, Indonesia