(from the article `Pandanales`) the screw-pine order of monocotyledonous flowering plants, containing the screw-pine family, Pandanaceae, with three genera of trees, shrubs, and ... ...The sweet potato and cassava, introduced by Europeans, now serve as alternate subsistence foods on some of the high islands. On some of the drier ... ...
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(Pandanus) This tropical plant comes from Africa, Polynesia, Australia, and India. In their native lands they can reach a height of 60 feet. Their trunks are ringed with horizontal leaf scars, and roots, which act like props, grow from miscellaneous spots on the trunk and main stems into the ground and reduce the danger of the tree being blown over...
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