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Pandanus utilis (Screw-pine)

Life > eukaryotes > Archaeoplastida > Chloroplastida > Charophyta > Streptophytina > Plantae (land plants) > Tracheophyta (vascular plants) > Euphyllophyta > Lignophyta (woody plants) > Spermatophyta (seed plants) > Angiospermae (flowering plants) > Monocotyledons > Order: Pandanales > Family: Pandanaceae

 

Pandanus utilis (Screw-pine) in the Company Gardens, Cape Town. [photo H. Robertson, Iziko ©]

 

Native to Madagascar; cultivated in southern African gardens.