Gavin Hellier / The view over the Bangkok City skyline from Vertigo, a bar and restaurant on top of the Banyan Tree Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010

Gavin Hellier / The view over the Bangkok City skyline from Vertigo, a bar and restaurant on top of the Banyan Tree Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010

Gavin Hellier / The view over the Bangkok City skyline from Vertigo, a bar and restaurant on top of the Banyan Tree Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand, 2010

David Pattyn / Hanuman / Northern Plains Grey Langur (Semnopithecus entellus) family resting in roots of Banyan tree. Ranthabore National Park, India, June.

David Pattyn / Northern Plains gray / Hanuman Langur (Semnopithecus entellus) family resting in Banyan tree whilst playful juvenile is swinging at tail of adult, Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan, India

David Pattyn / Northern Plains gray / Hanuman Langur (Semnopithecus entellus) three langurs resting in between the roots of a Banyan tree that is growing on steep mountain side, Ranthambore National Park, Rajasthan,...

Bernard Castelein / Southern plains grey langur ( Semnopithecus entellus / Presbytis entellus) group sitting in Banyan tree, Sawai Modhopur, Rajasthan India

Nick Garbutt / Pool and cave with large Indian banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis) Tsimanampetsotsa National Park, South West Madagascar. (digitally stitched image)

Ingo Arndt / Chinese Banyan Tree (Ficus microcarpa) roots and dead host tree in rainforest, Christmas Island, Indian Ocean, Territory of Australia

Nick Upton / Male Formosan / Taiwan macaque (Macaca cyclopis) sitting on branch of banyan tree (Ficus microcarpus) Chaishan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Nick Upton / Chinese banyan tee (Ficus microcarpa) with many prop roots supporting main trunk and aerial roots hanging from branches. Chaishan, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Konrad Wothe / Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis), India

Konrad Wothe / Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis) hollow trunk in rainforest, Interview Island, India

Konrad Wothe / Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis) wrapping around host tree, Interview Island, India

Konrad Wothe / Indian Banyan Tree (Ficus benghalensis) showing aerial roots, India

Adrian Davies / Chinese Banyan tree (Ficus microcarpa) with aerial roots, Hong Kong, China

Adrian Davies / External roots of Chinese Banyan tree (Ficus microcarpa), Hong Kong, China

Jouan & Rius / Brown lemur (Eulemur fulvus) in banyan tree looking out through leaves, South Madagascar

Nature Production / Grove of Indian banyan trees {Ficus benghalensis} India

Gertrud & Helmut Denzau / Indian banyan tree {Ficus benghalensis} Ranthambhore NP, Rajasthan, India

Tui De Roy / Bear Cuscus (Ailurops ursinus) an endemic marsupial feeding on False Banyon (Ficus altissima) fruit, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Tui De Roy / False Banyon (Ficus altissima) brief heavy crop of red fruit attractins numerous frugivores when red, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Tui De Roy / False Banyon (Ficus altissima) surrounded by fruit after simultaneous ripening of heavy nutritious crop, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Tui De Roy / Bear Cuscus (Ailurops ursinus) an endemic marsupial feeding on False Banyon (Ficus altissima) rehabilitated orphan, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Tui De Roy / Bear Cuscus (Ailurops ursinus) an endemic marsupial feeding on False Banyon (Ficus altissima) rehabilitated orphan, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Tui De Roy / False Banyon (Ficus altissima) surrounded by fallen fruit, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Tui De Roy / False Banyon (Ficus altissima) tree, with heavy red fruit attracts many frugivores, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia

Bernard Castelein / Banyan tree, Ranthambore NP, Rajastan, India

Bernard Castelein / Banyan tree, Ranthambore NP, Rajastan, India

Onne van der Wal / Man standing in front of a large Banyan tree (Ficus bengalensis), Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.

Onne van der Wal / A man standing in front of a large Banyan tree in the Marquesas Islands, French Polynesia.

Tui De Roy / Celebes Black Macaque (Macaca nigra) feeding on False Banyon (Ficus altissima) fruit, orphan rehabilitation center, Tangkoko-Dua Saudara Nature Reserve, Sulawesi, Indonesia