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The leaves are also used as a flavoring for desserts such as pandan cake and sweet beverages. Filipino cuisine uses pandan as a flavoring in some coconut milk-based dishes as well as desserts like buko pandan. [14] It is also used widely in rice-based pastries such as suman and numerous sweet drinks and desserts. [15]
Pandanus conoideus is a plant in the Pandanus family from New Guinea.Its fruit is eaten in Papua New Guinea and Papua, Indonesia.The fruit has several names: marata, marita in Papua New Guinea local language, kuansu in Dani of Wamena [1] [2] or buah merah ("red fruit") in common Indonesian.
The fruit and seeds are eaten across much of its range as a food or medicine, while the roots are eaten for medicinal value. [5] [6] Extracts from the leaves, stems and roots are used in India to treat dysentery. [7] The Serampas people of Sumatra call the plant pandan singkil, and cultivate it near dwellings to ward off malevolent spirits. [8]
Pandanus is a genus of monocots with about 578 accepted species. [1] They are palm-like, dioecious trees and shrubs native to the Old World tropics and subtropics. Common names include pandan, screw palm and screw pine.
It is used for a variety of purposes in traditional medicine; tulsi is taken in many forms: as herbal tea, dried powder, fresh leaf or mixed with ghee. Essential oil extracted from Karpoora tulasi is mostly used for medicinal purposes and in herbal cosmetics. [112] Oenothera: Evening primrose
It is a small branched, palm-like dioecious tree with a flexuous trunk supported by brace roots.The tree can grow to a height of 4 meters. Leaves grow in clusters at the branch tips, with rosettes of sword-shaped, stiff (leather-like) and spiny bluish-green, fragrant leaves.
Pandanus tectorius is a species of Pandanus (screwpine) that is native to Malesia, Papuasia, eastern Australia, and the Pacific Islands.It grows in the coastal lowlands typically near the edge of the ocean. [3]
The leaves are also dried out and rolled, and used to make mats in Kerala, India; and Hawaii. [5] Care must be taken when handling the leaves because of their sharp spines. The fruit of Pandanus utilis is edible, although not flavorful to humans and must be cooked prior to consumption. [ 6 ]