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).
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Is it poisonous?
We have no record of Himalayan screw-pine being toxic, poisonous or venomous. That is not proof that it is safe. Never eat, touch or handle a wild plant, mushroom or animal on the strength of an identification; ask someone qualified.
Easily confused with
- Pandanus gemmifer
- Pandanus solms-laubachii
- Pandanus tectorius
- Pandanus odorifer
- Pandanus utilis
- Pandanus dubius
Classification
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Liliopsida
- Order
- Pandanales
- Family
- Pandanaceae
- Genus
- Pandanus
- Species
- Pandanus furcatus
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