Screw pine leaf

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Name Variations

 * screwpine leaf
 * bai toey
 * bai touy
 * pandanus leaf
 * daun pandan
 * pandan leaf
 * kewra
 * rampe leaf

About Screw pine leaf
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Popular in the cooking of Southeast Asia (particularly Indonesian, Malaysian and Thai), screw pine leaves have a floral flavor and are used most often to flavor rice dishes and puddings. Their intense green hue also makes them useful as a natural food coloring. Screw pine leaves are available in Asian markets sometimes fresh and always dried. They're also called daunpandan, pandanus and kewra.

Pandanus is a large genus of between 600-700 species of tree- or shrub-like flowering plants in the family Pandanaceae. The genus is native to the Old World tropics and western Pacific Ocean islands, with the largest number of species in Madagascar and Malesia (Wagner, Herbst, & Sohmer 1990). They are typically found in lower forested areas, savanahs, and along wetter shoreline regions. They are sometimes called screwpines because their long, flat leaves grow in a spiral pattern.