Grows in the mountains and fields. The fruit has many seeds and is astringent but not solid. Its fleshy stems can be used in vegetables. It is sweet in taste and cool in nature. It has the functions of clearing heat and detoxifying, diuresis and reducing swelling, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. How to eat: Before flowering, pick the pseudostem and peel off the outer skin to get the inner stem like a fluorescent tube. Cut it into thin pieces and make: (1) Cold wild plantain heart. (2) Wild plantain heart stew.

The young stem core of wild plantain is one of the stem wild vegetables commonly eaten by the Dai people. There are two main ways to eat the stem core of wild plantain: stir-fried and pickled. Side dishes fried with plantain stem hearts as the main ingredient include stir-fried plantain hearts with black bean paste and stir-fried plantain hearts with minced meat. To cook these two side dishes, cut the fresh wild plantain stems into slices and soak them in water. Use bamboo chopsticks to stir and wrap the filaments connecting each piece. Then crush the thin slices of the banana stems and stir them with bamboo chopsticks. Wrap in filaments, rinse once, pinch dry and prepare for frying. To stir-fry banana hearts with tempeh, stir-fry the tempeh in a pan until fragrant, then add crushed banana hearts and salt and stir-fry until cooked, then serve on a plate. To stir-fry plantain hearts and minced meat, first stir-fry the plantain hearts in an oil pan until they are five or six times ripe, then add the pre-chopped minced meat and stir-fry until cooked, add salt and MSG, mix well and serve. Fried plantain hearts made with black beans and minced lean meat are delicate and palatable, delicious, and have the effect of removing greasiness and losing weight. It is a unique ethnic food.