Iskaka Village, Tana Island, Vanuatu – December 31, 2015: The tree is harvested from the wild for local use as a food, medicine and source of wood. It’s light wood is used for canoe paddles, casing, light construction, and for quick-burning firewood; bark used medicinally for stomach ailments and gonorrhoea in the Solomon Islands; mature seed kernels eaten raw or cooked and sold at local produce markets; cooked for storage in the eastern Solomon Islands.