India (Garhwal Himalayas; Uttar Pradesh, Balrampur region): young shoots eaten in curry to treat scurvy. Fruit eaten ripe and unripe, in the Balrampur region.

Left untended to die — like others of its ilk — after being knocked down and uprooted by the furious storm in May, an old and imposing pilkhan tree (Ficus infectoria) has been eventually saved by a ...