Its soft, lightweight wood is used for making furniture and canoes, while the inner bark is sometimes used to make a kind of cloth known throughout the Pacific as tapa.
Tā mīksto, vieglo koksni izmanto mēbeļu un kanoe izgatavošanā, bet tā lūksnes šķiedra dažkārt tiek lietota, lai pagatavotu audumu, ko Klusā okeāna salās dēvē par tapu.