Traditionally cultivated for culinary and medicinal uses, leaves have a cucumber like taste. Can be used as either fresh in salads or as a dried herb. Used in soups, as a filling for pastas, or pickiling. The flower has a sweet honey-like taste and is often used to decorate desserts and cocktails such as Pimms or Gin BOTANICAL NAME: Borago Officinalis COMMON NAME: Borage, Bee Bush, Bee Bread, Starflower