Scientific Name: Freycinetia excelsa

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  • Pronunciation:
    fray-sin-ET-ee-ah ex-CELL-sah
  • Common Name:
    Narrow-leaved Climbing Pandan, Small Leaf Climbing Pandan, Climbing Pandan.
  • Derivation:
    Freycinetia: honours Louis de Freycinet 1779-1842, French navigator and author of
  • Type:
    Scrambling Climber , vine
  • Family:
    PANDANACEAE
  • Flowers:
    Terminal, red, orange (bracts) summer.. Male and female on different plants.
  • Fruit:
    Bright red, pointed. Berries **clavate **(club-shaped).
  • Vegetation Type:
    Wetter Rainforest,
  • Species List:
    Bush food, Wooroi Day Use Area Tracks, Wooroi Palm Grove, Old Tewantin, NNP Palm Grove, Upper Yandina Creek,
Cultural Notes

TAKE CARE! Some information about bush foods and medicines may be anecdotal. Correct identification and preparation is essential:

Fruit flesh edible but with stinging taste.

Identification Notes

Leaves: alternate, leaf base gradually narrowing, serrate to 50 cm x 8 mm,long and strap-like. Leaves prickly at base and apex. spirally arranged with prickly overlapping bases. Margins often recurved. ||Older stems: naked with with wiry clinging roots.||Flowers: colourful bracts, (F. scandens has white bracts.) Male and female on different plants.||Fruit: Syncarps - 1-3, rarely 4, red when ripe. Berries clavate.||

Landscaping Notes

Landscaping potential in suitable areas. Shade-loving. Moist well-drained soils. ||Indoor pot plant potential.||Successfully propagated by Barung Landcare||