Culinary use
Flower boiled directly into soup, inside fruit lightly roasted and boiled into soup, inside fruit lightly mortared into paste, inside fruit fermented into sauce or soup ingredient, flower steamed and pickled.
Medicinal properties
The plant is known to relieve bleeding gums, and helps to brighten the skin when consumed as cosmestic. To relieve fever, bloating, stomach cramps and when consumed as a tea.
