It can be as obvious and common as indigenous plants such as pandanus, lemongrass and daun kaduk (piper sarmentosum) growing in your garden. From Wordnik.com. Reference
These will be accompanied by healthy juices utilizing local fruits, herbs and spices such as pandanus, citronella grass, kaffir limes, fresh ginger and calamansi. From Wordnik.com. [ETravelBlackboard.com] Reference
Other components which may be present are nut pandanus. From Wordnik.com. [1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues.] Reference
Along the edge of the water it has a fringe of pandanus. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Dracenas are good for both sun and shade; so, too, is pandanus. From Wordnik.com. [The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming.] Reference
In the Philippines pandanus is widely used for hats and matting. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
The pandanus, or lauhala, is one of the most striking features of the islands. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
The same dyes also produce good results on big thatch, pandanus and vetiver grass. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
The island is covered with cocoa-nut and pandanus trees, but not a patch of grass was seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
A steep grassy slope comes down to the sea, separated therefrom by a line of pandanus palms. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Beachcomber] Reference
A number of the same dyes have been evaluated on big thatch and pandanus with similar results. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
When he had placed her on the soft pandanus mats she pulled away her skirt of ti leaves and said. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Mr. Cunningham found some traces of their having eaten the fruit of the pandanus, of which he says. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
There were a few pandanus trees whose spare and bitter fruits could be chewed for minimum existence. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
(pandanus jiulianettii) at altitudes above 1,800 m and oil pandanus (pandanus conoideus) below 1,700 m. From Wordnik.com. [1. Tree products in agroecosystems: economic and policy issues.] Reference
She was soon on the surface again, however, and Toiva, sitting up in a pandanus tree, called out, "Look up!". From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
Another form of aeroplane, “Par-gir-ah,” comes from the pandanus palm — its parts being plaited together. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
Made a delay of twenty minutes from having to go through pandanus and tea-tree scrub, and then over rocks, etc. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
The family rose up, caught him, tied him up with pandanus leaves, and frightened him by poking him with firebrands. From Wordnik.com. [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference
Varieties of pandanus are found also in the Caribbean and are used in handicrafts in Dominica, Grenada and Jamaica. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 6] Reference
“Piar-piar” is made from a strip from the side of the leaf of one of the pandanus palms (pandanus PEDUNCULATUS). From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
At 12.40 p.m. made two miles west to a small dry watercourse from the north, which is full of pandanus at its mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
The cove is formed by a bold and rounded mass of granite, on which pandanus palms and straggling shrubs find foothold. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
The craft is propelled by graceful crescent-shaped lateen sails of pandanus matting and steered by sweeps from the stern. From Wordnik.com. [Popular Science Monthly Oct, Nov, Dec, 1915 — Volume 86] Reference
There was just one part where that abomination, pandanus, had to be got through, but, as swamps go, it was not at all bad. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
The rain had ceased, cool breezes rustled through the palm-groves and sighed through the funereal foliage of the pandanus. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Where we crossed the Barkly it had a narrow muddy bed, the water in which was cool from its being shaded with pandanus, palms, and. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
It is a whorled pandanus, with long sword-shaped leaves, spirally arranged in three rows, and hard, saw-toothed edges, very sharp. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Mias covers himself over with leaves of pandanus, or large ferns, which has perhaps led to the story of his making a hut in the trees. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago] Reference
Taro corms were kept dry and twisted inside pandanus leaves until such time as they could be plunged into soft, wet mud for a new harvest. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
In the moist portions of the jungle toward the foot of the hill were whole groves of the fragrant pandanus, ferns of infinite variety, and. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873] Reference
Just out of the reach of the salt surges, the rock is fretted with the fibrous roots of fig and umbrella-trees, pandanus palm and hibiscus bushes. From Wordnik.com. [Last Leaves from Dunk Island] Reference
Three of the party, Douglass, Taylor, and Costigan, were suffering from diarrhoea, in consequence of having eaten too freely of the pandanus fruit. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York] Reference
Carefully scraping the skull to remove all desiccated fragments, he wrapped it in maile leaves, then in tapa and finally in a closely woven pandanus mat. From Wordnik.com. [Hawaii]
Waimanu had turned out to meet us about thirty people on horseback, all of whom shook hands with me, and some of them threw over me garlands of ohia, pandanus, and hibiscus. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
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