A plant belonging to the genus Ficus (family Moraceae), most of which are evergreen trees, shrubs, climbers, stranglers, or epiphytes, many with aerial roots and all producing a white or yellow latex. ‘Fig’ also describes the fruit, which is a synconium. There are about 850 species distributed mainly in the tropics but a few in warm-temperate regions, including the common edible fig F. carica.