Putat

Part(s) used for food preparation

Fruits & leaflets

Culinary use

Fruits and shoots are eaten raw with condiments or to mix with cooked rice

Medicinal properties

The different parts have many properties, such as being febrifuge, antirheumatic, treating coughs, asthma and diarrhoea, etc.

Vernacular name : Putat

Botanical name : Barringtonia racemosa

Other name : Pooeierkwasboom, Iboqo, Yakooro

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