Pandan Mabango

Family Pandanaceae

Scientific name:  Pandanus Odoratissimus L.

 Other names:

           Bawing (Lan.)                           Pandan china (S. Kud)

           Bawing a bigas (Lan.)            Pandan humot (Ak.)

           Fragrant Screwpine (Engl.)  Pandan mahamot (Sam., Ley.)

           Pandan (Cag., Rom.)

It is an erect, branched shrub reaching 2-3 m in height.  The trunk bears few to many prop roots.  The leaves are grant, spirally crowded toward the ends of the branches slenderly lance-shaped.

Is is cultivated throughout the country as an ormamental and condiment and is propagated by separation.