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Pandanus

Pandanus furcatus

Pandanus
Photo: Matilda Smith, Public domain

Pandanus furcatus is a branched screw pine tree that grows up to about 17 m, with long linear leaves and stilt-like aerial roots. It is grown as a garden or landscape tree in warm climates and needs room, moisture and some shade when young.

Family
Pandanaceae (Pandan family)
Grows as
Tree
Light
Part shade
Water
Keep soil evenly moist, especially when young, and water more in hot dry spells.
Soil
Well-drained, fertile, moisture-retentive soil or a rich loam-based mix.
Temperature
18–30 °C; tolerates light frost but protect from hard freezes
How easy
Moderate
Native range
W. India, Sri Lanka, W. Indo-China
Climate
subtropical

About

Pandanus furcatus (common name Pandan Atono) Roxb., also known as korr, pandan or Himalayan/Nepal screw pine (named for the screw-like arrangement of its leaves), is native to the Sikkim Himalaya of Northeast India, Bhutan and Nepal, Malaysia, Indonesia and West Africa, and occurs on moist and shady slopes of ravines between 300 and 1500 m. As might be expected it is cold-resistant and able to tolerate occasional light frost, slowly growing to a tall branched tree, about 17 m at maturity, and perched on stilt-like aerial roots. The crown is made up of linear leaves 5 m long, pale-green, with finely toothed margins, rarely up to 6 m long (exceeded in the genus only by Pandanus laxespicatus). The leathery flower spathes are golden-yellow, the lowermost are largest and about 1m in length.

Other Pandanus plants

Pandanus aldabraensis · Fragrant Pandan · Water Pandan · Ngaputoru Pandanus · Pandanus aridus · Vakwa montany · Pandanus barkleyi · Pandanus boninensis · Pandanus brookei · Pandanus brosimos · Pandanus calcicola · Pandanus candelabrum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Pandanus furcatus by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.

The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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