Fig

According to Wikipedia, there are about 850 species of Ficus. So it's quite hard to guess if this is the common on that you make dried fruits from. What is interesting, though, is that the flowers are pollinated internally (within the green capsule) by the fig wasps. If you can, watch private life of plants by David Attenborough. The section on "flowering".

thanks nuwan!! if it is the f. racemosa then it is edible... except for slight problem of the fig wasps. in ancient times Hindu and Buddhist ascetics on route to taxila would travel through Indian forests and eat these fruits.

I don't think it is edible? If not the hundreds of visitors to the gardens would have plucked it clean? I would like to know what kind of fruit that is too!