So fun fact, if you open up the plants.lua, you can see the original intention in some comments for many of the plants, slipstack was lubricant, boompuffs was going to be rocket fuel, and stingfronds carbon fibre. etc etc. There aren't any details on the implementations for these ideas however. I think I read one of the Friday posts leading up to space age that they abandoned all that for just 2 trees, because it was getting too complicated / too many recipes for one planet - which is fair for the base game perhaps, Gleba does have more content from a recipe based perspective.
Anyway, I still like the idea of all the plants having a use, and it'd be nice for them to give you neat treats. I think your right, the boompuff needs to be weaponised. Great concept, I'll start pondering about the details... initial thoughts make me think it is something to do with stingfronds too - theres got to be a reason the pentapods don't go into the highlands, and its because they don't fair well against the stinging and booming haha.
On that note, I just realised what this Stingfrond mod needs, a new bullet ammo type, which contains stinging nettles, which does poison and slowing damage, which is really good against biological enemies.