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Food - Fruit eaten when ripe, also cooked as vegetable and eaten. The leaves are commonly used for wrapping foods that are to be cooked especially glutinous rice dishes. They impart a distinctive flavour and a greenish colour. Medcine - They are eaten, often roasted, as a treatment for diarrhoea. They have astringent properties.
Malesia, Philippiness
Wet tropical biome.
Perennial herb
Fleshy pseudostem formed by overlapping leaf sheaths.
Large, oblong or paddle-shaped, with prominent midrib.
Enclosed in a large, purple bract, followed by a cluster of yellow flowers.
Elongated, fleshy, edible berries, typically yellow when ripe.
Flowering: late summer or early autum.