Strange Fruit

by Barbie Corbett-Newmin

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Strange Fruit

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Barbie Corbett-Newmin

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I had to walk into someone's front yard to shoot this Pandanus utilis fruit. The male plants produce tiny fragrant flowers. Gardeners often prefer the female plant for its showy pineapple-like fruit. Although the fruit is edible, it is nicknamed the famine fruit because of its unpleasant taste. Not a true pine, the screw pine is a monocot and is a close relative of grasses, orchids and palms. The common name for this plant originated from the strap-like spiny leaves spirally arranged around its branches.
The screw pine is tropical and grows in rain forests and semi-evergreen forests of Madagascar, southern Asia and the islands of the southwestern Pacific. It has a pyramidal shape supported by large stilt-like prop roots that emerge several feet above the ground. In Borneo, New Guinea and other pacific islands, it is often called the walking palm because of the way that the roots gradually carry the plant from one spot to another.

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February 16th, 2014

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