screw-pine

The ancient crone was making a dearest-loved lei (wreath) of the fruit of the hala which is the screw-pine or pandanus of the South Pacific.

SHIN-BONES 2010

The tallest trees are screw-pine Pandanus tectorius, and other trees include the endemics Santalum hendersonense, Myrsine hoskae, Celtis paniculata var. viridis, and two endemic varieties of Bidens hendersonensis.

Henderson Island, United Kingdom 2008

Typing, I lifted my head to gaze right: a steel-gray sky loomed over the landscape, the perfect shade to highlight a brilliant tapestry of banana and screw-pine leaves, of red and orange flowers, of a distant hillside the precise yellow-green Gaugin used to paint the central figures in his great tableau.

The Examined Life 2007

Above the cliffs there were grassy uplands with park-like clumps of the screw-pine, and candle-nut, and glades and dells of dazzling green, bright with cataracts, opened up among the dark dense forests which for some thousands of feet girdle Mauna

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Among the most remarkable forms of vegetation is a screw-pine and candle-nut tree, so named from the fact that the natives string together the kernels, which are very oily, and make candles.

Shepp's Photographs of the World Daniel B. Shepp

The ancient crone was making a dearest-loved lei (wreath) of the fruit of the hala which is the screw-pine or pandanus of the South Pacific.

Shin-Bones 1919

I have catechu powder scented with the pollen of screw-pine blossoms.

The Home and the World Rabindranath Tagore 1901

Lamps glittered everywhere; electric lights were doubly festooned along the sea wall, drooping creeper-like from palm to palmetto, from flowering hibiscus to sprawling banyan, from dainty china-berry to grotesque screw-pine tree, shedding strange witch-lights over masses of blossoms, tropical and semi-tropical.

The Firing Line 1899

The material used is toquilla straw, the mid-rib of the screw-pine (_Carlodovica palmata_).

Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895

Here and there are very extensive swamps of sea-water, evaporrated to a strong brine; the margins of these are clothed with a fair growth of the pandanus or screw-pine palm, the fruit of which, when ripe, forms a nutritious and palatable food for the natives of the Equatorial Pacific

Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899 Louis Becke 1884