Pandanus is the genus name given to the group of palm-like trees to which many different species belong.1
They are also known as screw pines or screw palms.2,3,1
Pandanus are distributed in tropical and subtropical regions including along the north and east coast of Australia, southeast Asia, the Pacific Islands, India and Madagascar.2,3,1,4
The female trees bare the fruit, which are made of small individual sections called keys and are usually yellow-orange in colour when ripe.3