Pandanus Species, Tahitian Screwpine, Textile Screw-Pine, Thatch Screw-Pine

I'd like to grow these from seed and have collected some of the dried keys which fell from the tree. Each key has 9 "segments" that are ...Read Morehard to remove from the key. Are the segments themselves what need to be planted, or the entire key?

I have had a great success with growing the Pandanus in Brisbane Australia but these have all beenn from smaller plants ,Does any one hav...Read Moree an idea how to grow these from seed

I had no idea this plant was related to the screw pine. I cut a runner from a huge stand of this while visiting a friend in Ft. Lauderda...Read Morele last year. It is growing great here. Seems totally unfazed by the salty wind here as well as the extremely cold winter we just had.

I originally acquired my Veitch's screw pine as a small, wilted heap after it had been discarded by a neighbour. I didn't know what it wa...Read Mores at first, but a few well-watered weeks in regular potting soil and partial shade produced several new leaves. Two years later, it's four feet tall and nearly as wide, with several daughter plants filling out its 24" pot.

This particular Pandanus is like a jumbo spider plant on steroids. Its leaves broaden with age, and its variegation changes from pinstripes in youth to a watercolour-like gradation, the distal ends of the leaves turning a uniform, ivory white. It will never fruit (according to ufl.edu's profile) and should stay within 10' as a container plant.

P. veitchii makes an outstanding houseplant, as it tolerates dry air and infrequent watering. It should be summered outdoors, but doesn't seem to require much acclimation time when moved indoors. I have mine situated close to a large east window with no other source of light, and it has continued to grow slowly throughout the winter with no leaf drop. The only possible negative aspect to this plant is its sharply serrated leaves (both margins and underside of the midrib), which impart a short-lived but very itchy rash after even the slightest contact. Calcium oxalate crystals are probably to blame.