Species · genus Pandanus · Pandanaceae

Screw-pine

Pandanus odorifer (Forssk.) Kuntze

Growth habit

tree

Native range

Aldabra, Andaman Is., Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maldives, Myanmar, Nansei-shoto, Nicobar Is., Philippines, South China Sea, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

Pandanus odorifer — reference photo — 葉子 · CC0

Cultivars of P. odorifer

The named forms growers keep — each with its own page, each honest about how much we know.

No named cultivars catalogued under P. odorifer yet. When growers document a stable, named form, it earns its own page here.

Guide

The species-level account. Cultivar pages build on this and say where they differ.

A Tree of Many Names

Pandanus odorifer is a tree in the screwpine family, Pandanaceae, native to wet tropical habitats. It carries a long list of synonyms, including the widely used Pandanus odoratissimus, reflecting how often it has been described and redescribed across its vast range.

Source: Kew

A Wide Tropical Range

This species is native to Aldabra and a broad sweep of tropical and subtropical Asia, from India and Sri Lanka through Southeast Asia to southern China and the Philippines. It has also been introduced well beyond that native range, turning up in places such as Florida, Puerto Rico, the Windward and Leeward Islands, Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Yemen. Kew's classification places it in the order Pandanales, within the genus Pandanus.

Source: Kew

Care recipe

The species record — the baseline every cultivar inherits unless it says otherwise.

Care notes are early — not yet verified

Light: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Water: ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d)
Humidity: ai:claude-opus-4-8
Soil: ai:claude-fable-5
Care: ai:claude-fable-5

Light

Bright, indirect

Water

≈ every 14 days

Humidity

High

Temperature

18–32 °C

Soil mix

Sandy, free-draining mix

Propagation

Suckers or seed

Fertilizing

Light balanced feed monthly in the growing season

Growth rate

Moderate

Flowering

Rarely flowers indoors

ToxicityAuthoritative · species

Not yet documented

This is where toxicity lives — every cultivar of this species inherits it and none can override it.

Reference images

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Sources: ai:claude-opus-4-8 · ai:claude-opus-4-8 (range 7-14d) · ai:claude-fable-5

Kept true by its growers

Every fact here carries its source. Grow Screw-pine yourself? What you’ve observed — how it drinks, how it holds its color, a name that’s off — and a clear photo of your plant are exactly what keep this page honest. Contributions are reviewed before anything changes.