Description
The fruit is used as cultivated strawberry, eaten raw or cooked and made into preserves. With an exquisite sweet taste.
Young leaves can be eaten as a salad herb or cooked.
Tea can be made from the leaves.
Leaves are mainly used as a medicine and are excellent to take when feverish.
Fruit sliced can help soothe sunburnt skin. A tea can be a blood tonic.
Roots are used medicinally too.
Flowers are a compost activator and the fruit is used to remove stains from teeth.
Fruit is used for skin-care creams to tone and whiten skin, combat wrinkles, lighten freckles and soothe the skin.
