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Screw pine, Pandanus Palm or Screw Palm

Pandanus spiralis

Photo by Christiane
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You probably can't imagine how much I hate to call this one a 'Palm' or a 'PINE'. It's like calling a cat a dog.. But it's the common English name and in German, too. But if one wants to sort it into a category somehow, rather call it a lily.
In fact, the Pandanus genus is well used by the locals, where ever it grows. And on several places like islands there is anyway not much more growing than just these hard shrubs. So people use fruits for food and medicine, the leaves for weaving and the oil of certain species for perfume.
All Pandanus species have this screw pattern of producing leaves, it's only not always clearly visible.

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PublishedNovember 21, 2013

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