Fruit ID help needed please

[kh0110]

Hi All,

I've received this photo from a friend who goes to Cambodia regularly and she happened to snap this one on a quick visit to one of the temples. Is this a wild fig or something, can someone please help identify this fruit tree? This is all I have from my friend. I guess I have to go myself to check this out.



Thanks.

[Mike T]

Thera it looks alot like many of the cluster fig species I get in the rainforest just 200m from my place Ficus racemosa and copiosa are 2 that look similar.The fruit will be pretty dry and not all that sweet I reckon.

[kh0110]

Thanks, Mike, my first thought was that it was a fig tree also although I'm not aware of any WILD fig tree in Cambodia or in any Sout East asian countries for that matter.

[fruitlovers]

Mike is right, it is some type of ficus. It doesn't need to be native to Cambodia to be growing there.

[kh0110]

Thanks, Oscar, that was what I told my friend what I thought it could be. I just want some more infos from the specialists here.

[Recher]

There are around 800 species of Ficus native across the globe on every continent excluding Antartica and including Cambodia

Every Ficus fruit is edible but only about ten considered palatable: carica, auriculata
(roxburghii), sycamorus, racemosa, .....

[kh0110]

I told my friend that without a picture of the leaves, it's probably not possible to give her the exact name of the fig. Unless someone here could tell just by looking at the fruits.