Ficus palmata, the Punjab fig,[2] or "Bedu" is a plant in the family Moraceae.

It is native to southern Egypt across to north-eastern tropical Africa and also the Arabian Peninsula.

Ficus palmata is native to north-eastern Africa: from Egypt south to Somalia, and to the Arabian Peninsula and Syria (the typical subspecies)[1] and to Asia: from the Arabian Peninsula and Iran east to India and the Himalayas,[4] (subspecies virgata).

[6] Its habitat, desert or dry shrubland including near villages in the Himalayas,[3] is at altitudes of 1,000–1,500 m (3,000–5,000 ft).

The fruits are used in folk medicine to treat inflammation, pathogenic bacterial ailments and be used as an analgesic (Shi et al.