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The tree that looks like it's fleeing on stilts and smells like dessert.
means A tropical tree or shrub (genus Pandanus) with long spiky leaves and prop roots, whose fragrant fruit, leaves, or pandan extract are widely used in cooking, weaving, and perfume.
from Borrowed by European botanists from Malay 'pandan,' the local name for the tree across Southeast Asia and the Pacific — the scientific genus name is simply the Malay word kept intact, not Latin or Greek in disguise.
- the roots
- prop roots make it look permanently mid-escape
- the fragrance
- leaves flavor rice and sweets across south asia
- the fruit
- resembles a spiky pineapple, eaten or ignored entirely
- the range
- thrives on beaches salt and neglect can't kill