Freycinetia

Japanese: Freycinetia
Freycinetia

...A climbing woody plant of the family Pandanaceae, sometimes called Tsurudako due to its shape. It is an evergreen shrub-like climbing plant with woody stems and many linear lanceolate leaves in a spiral. The leaves are 60-100 cm long. Dioecious. Several spadixes grow terminally on the stems, and are covered with several leaf-like bracts. It is distributed on Ishigaki Island and Iriomote Island in Okinawa, and on Taiwan. The fruits are sometimes edible, and it is sometimes cultivated for decorative purposes. There are about 60 species of the genus Freycinetia (English name climbing screw-pine) found in Southeast Asia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands, and in Japan, Tsurudako F. boninensis Nakai is found on the Ogasawara Islands. ...

*Some of the terminology that mentions "Freycinetia" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…タコノキ科のつる性木本植物で,その形状からツルダコと呼ばれることもある。常緑の低木状つる植物で,茎は木質化し,多数の線状披針形の葉をらせん状につける。葉は長さ60~100cm。雌雄異株。茎に数個が頂生状につく肉穂花序は,数枚の葉状の苞につつまれる。沖縄の石垣島および西表島,それに台湾に分布する。果実が食用とされることがあり,またときに観賞用に栽植される。 ツルアダン属Freycinetia(英名climbing screw‐pine)は東南アジアからオーストラリア,太平洋諸島に約60種あり,日本には小笠原諸島にツルダコF.boninensis Nakaiがある。…

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