Buy 5 or more items and receive a 25% discount use coupon code: 25PERCENTOFF Vegetable Hummingbird - a softwood tree with lax racemes of usually red or white flowers; tropical Australia and Asia; naturalized in southern Florida and West Indies It is a fast-growing tree with a typical adult height of between 3 and 5 m. The leaves are regular and rounded and the flowers white and large, very characteristic. The fruits look like flat, long and thin green beans. The tree thrives under full exposure to sunshine and is extremely frost sensitive. The flowers can be steamed and are eaten as a thai vegetable. The root, leaf, bark, and flower all have medicinal properties.