Pandanus utilis Bory
Common screwpine
Palm-like, evergreen tree to growing to 6 m tall leaves with spiny margins and midribs that are produced in tufts at the branch tips in three or four close twisted ranks around the stem, forming the screwlike helices of leaves that give the common name screw pine to these plants flowers are simple, petal-less, usually densely clustered, and either male or female, the sexes being produced on different plants fruits ball-shaped
Salty soils with good drainage
The plant is also cultivated as ornamental in gardens, where it is valued especially for its fragrant flowers. The plant is valued mainly for its leaves, which are used for thatch, woven into baskets, mats, bags, sacks etc. It also supplies a useful fiber plus an edible fruit and inflorescence. The root fibres are much stronger than those from the leaves, and are occasionally used for making cordage, and for admixture with jute in gunny bags
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