Pandanus lamekotensis
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Baig, Kariat, Keg, Kiat
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A tree. It grows 4-7 m high. It has 5-8 branches. The leaves are 250 cm long by 9 cm wide. The leaves on the fruiting branches are smaller. There are fine thorny teeth along the edge. The fruit is a round composite fruit. When mature it is 22 cm long by 25 cm wide. It is deep orange to red. The fingers are 6-8 cm long by 3-4 cm wide. Their surfaces are not deeply furrowed. There are 10-17 nuts. Many are empty. The weathered fruit becomes very fibrous. The ripe fruit are eaten.
Edible Uses
The ripe fruit are sucked and can be made into jam.
Traditional Uses
The ripe fruit are sucked and can be made into jam.
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Distribution
A tropical plant. It grows on Lamekot Island in Papua New Guinea. It grows on the swampy banks of creeks.
Where It Grows
Pacific, Papua New Guinea, PNG,
Production
It starts producing fruit when 1 m high so the first fruit rests on the ground.
Notes
There are about 600 Pandanus species. They grow in the tropics.
Also Known As
Va-keg, Va-keig
References (2)
- Notizbl. Bot. Gart. Berlin-Dahlem 10:112, 1927
- Peekel, P.G., 1984, (Translation E.E.Henty), Flora of the Bismarck Archipelago for Naturalists, Division of Botany, Lae, PNG. p 41, 40
