Pour remaining marinade over pears. It's also a source of yellow and orange dyes for wool and silk, notably as a coloring for the robes of Buddhist monks. The female flowers give beer its characteristic taste. Hops flowers have sedative properties. It was noted hops pickers tired easily, probably from the transfer of the resin from their hands to their mouths.
Hops are closely related botanically to marijuana.
The leaves of the plant are dried to make fil powder to thicken soup, and in fil gumbo .