Larval host plant for Lime Swallowtail, Common Guava Blue and Common Peacock Butterflies
Uses
Fruits are edible, used to prepare jam, juice, pickle etc
Leaves are edible, eaten in salad
Fruit is used for treatment of diarrhoea, dysentery, hiccoughs, sore throat, asthama, eye infections, gum diseases also as tonic to liver, lungs, and cardiac tonic
Leaves are good cure for vomiting, indigestions, hiccups and dysentery, they contain tannins and essential oil
Its gum is used for adulterant of gum arabic, in making watercolours, ink, dyes and varnish
