Common name: Flowering Pandanus, Climbing Pandanus
Botanical name:Freycinetia cumingianaFamily:Pandanaceae (Screw pine family)
Flowering Pandanus is an evergreen climber with stems
that can grow 5 ft or more. The slender roots grow along the stem
attaching the plant to the tree, shrub or support on which it is
growing. The leaves are dark green, narrow, lanceshaped and leathery and can
grow up to 10 inches long.
Flowers are borne at the ends of branches above several showy
pinkish-orange bracts that form beneath the inflorescenses. Flowers are
good for use as cut-flowers. Flowering Pandanus is native to
Philippines, cultivated elsewhere.
Identification credit: Aarti Khale, J.M. Garg
Photographed in cultivation in Mumbai.
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