Small evergreen dioecious tree ; up to 4 m tall , with a slender single trunk and brown ringed bark . Stems erect , multi-branched , prickly . Leaves spirally arranged at the end of the branches , sword-shaped , stiff (leather-like) , with saw-like margins . Flowers sweet fragrant , dioecious . Male flowers , in racemes , grouped in 3 , gathered in large clusters surrounded by big , white bracts , small , fragrant , short-lived . The flowers are grouped in 3 and gathered in large clusters[8] surrounded by big . Female flowers resemble pineapples . Fruit segmented , large , with a diameter of 4–20 cm and a length of 8–30 cm , ovoid , ellipsoid , subglobose or globose , made up of 38–200 wedge-like phalanges . (Ref . https://en . wikipedia . org) .
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Least Concern (LC) - Global Assessment
Not Common
الوصف غير متاح حاليًا
Bromelia sylvestris Burm.f.
Athrodactylis spinosa J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.
Hasskarlia leucacantha Walp.
Keura odora Thunb.
Marquartia leucacantha Hassk.
Pandanus odoratissimus L.f.
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Thatch Screwpine
Tahitian Screwpine
Hala Tree
Not used traditionally.
*https://en.wikipedia.org *https://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org *Hammer, K. Gebauer, J. Al Khanjari, S. Buerkert, A. (2009). Oman at the cross-roads of inter-regional exchange of cultivated plants. Gene Resour Crop Evol (2009) 56:547-560. Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008. DOI 10.1007/s10722-008-9385-z. *POWO (2023). ""Plants of the World Online. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Published on the Internet; http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org