MokomokoMontrichardia arborescens
This marshland plant is used in Suriname to help slow down bleeding; a slice from the stalk can be used as a plaster. The plant helped the Maroons escape from slavery. Rolander (1755) recorded the use of the branches of the mokomoko by enslaved people to build rafts on which they escaped from the plantations. On their road to freedom, the bitter flesh of the fruit stilled their hunger.