Bedoń, near Łódź

It is native from Africa to temperate and tropical Asia and Europe. Edible plant - seeds raw or cooked; leaves raw or cooked. Herbal plant - flowers and petals are anodyne, emollient, emmenagogue, expectorant, hypnotic, slightly narcotic and sedative; the latex in the seedpods is narcotic and slightly sedative. Useful plant - a red dye from the petals is used as a food flavouring, especially in wine.