RE: Pandanus edibility

> Characteristic fruits of pandanus are a round aggregate of red or yellow
> berries as much a 12 inches across, looking quite a lot like a
> pineapple, but as far as I can ascertain they are not edible.

In Hawaii, another local name for screwpine is "tourist pineapple" and it is
described as "edible, if you're really desperate."

Supposedly, the ubiquitous tour bus guides will point to Pandanus fruit and
claim they are pineapples to the horticulturally illiterate tourists.
(They're also known to get the whole tour bus populace "baaaaaing" at
mountain goats in Waimea Canyon on Kaua'i!)

Cheryl
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