The berries can be used to make bayberry wax candles. American colonists boiled the berries to extract the sweet-smelling wax, which they used to make clean-burning candles.Mark H. Brand. "Myrica pensylvanica: Northern Bayberry". Plant UConn Database of trees, shurbs and vines. Retrieved 2010-10-29."History of Candles." National Candle Association (2010). Retrieved 2010-10-29.
