Pandanus lamekotensis
Markgr.
Baig, Kariat, Keg, Kiat
What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit
The ripe fruit are sucked and can be made into jam.
Where to Find It
A tropical plant. It grows on Lamekot Island in Papua New Guinea. It grows on the swampy banks of creeks.
Pacific, Papua New Guinea, PNG,
How to Identify
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.
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.
Names & Synonyms
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
