Freycinetia rapensis
Brown
PandanaceaeFruit
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The fruit is eaten.
Where to Find It
It is a tropical plant. It grows in the cloud forests.
Austral Is, Cook Islands, Hawaii, Samoa,
Countries: Cook Islands, United States, Samoa
How to Identify
A woody creeper in the Pandanaceae family that grows in tropical cloud forests. The fruit is edible.
Notes
There are about 100-175 Freycinetia species.
References (1)
- Barrau, J., 1961 (1976 reprint), Subsistence Agriculture in Polynesia and Micronesia. Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 223, Honolulu, Hawaii, p 62
