Does anyone have a pandanus amaryllis plant for trade?
Thanks.
Looking for pandanus amaryllis
Would that be Pandanus amaryllifolius, the Pandan tree?
Yeah, with the fragrant leaves used for cooking. I saw a link that showed it grows abundantly in HI. Would gladly pay for a couple of plants. Many of my Asian friends are also looking ardently for this plant. Do you think you could help? Would greatly appreciate it if you could.
Here's the link -
http://www.hear.org/starr/plants/images/species/?q=pandanus ...
Thanks a bunch!
Jen
Hi Jen, I have a large shrub of the plant.
Super!! Are you able to spare some offsets? You'll be a good plant source for me and my friends. I can pay for the plants and shipping as well as I'm in dire need of this plant for my cooking.
PLMK. Thanks.
Jen
I buy them frozen at Asian grocery store. They are excellent for some of my recipes. I would love to get a plant also. Had you googled to find a nursery that sells them? Belle
i will post a recipe after my golf game. I very seldom play with my husband and so this will be fun!! i normally pay with ladies at the league. Belle
I use it with rice
Do you know how to cook rice?
when cooking rice just add slices of pandan leaves with perhaps 1 table spoon of sweet butter.. You can also add 1/4 C of sweet rice or glutinous rice.
Oriental dessert with pandan leaves
assorted sweet potato cut in cubes( pink,white flesh. purple)
cassava cut in cubes
taro cut in cubes
boiled chick peas-
i can white hominy - rinsed and drained. you can use frozen if available.
brown sugar
i can of coconut milk
water 2 cups
vanilla 1 table spoon
combine all ingredients and cook under medium fire till it is done stirring occasionally to prevent from sticking. Stir carefully so ingredients does not get too mushy.The amount of brown sugar depends on how sweet you want it.
You can thicken it with glutinous rice powder. Use sparingly. Mix it with water before adding to the
Please tell me if you like the taste. Belle
pandan leaves
mix all
The Pandan, Pandanus amaryllifolius is a cultigen which is unknown in the wild, and has rarely ever flowered in cultivation. (A single mature shrub flowered in the Singapore Botanic Garden in 1974. The only record of the event.) Propagation is by stem suckers.
I can send several bare root stem suckers in a small package, to the mainland only. Please D-mail me about such.
In most gardens Pandan gets about 5 - 10 ft. tall. Here is my hedge which is over 15 ft., planted from a stem sucker in 1996. I'm hoping that conditions are good enough here to get the plant to flower!
Oh, that'd be so wonderful. Thanks a mil! Shall I send you the postage for it? Please dmail me your address. Thanks.
Jenny Williams
6621 South Lagoon Dr
Panama City Beach, FL 32408
I sent you a d-mail few days ago.PLMK thank you. Belle
Yes, I can do so, please don't be pushy, as I am very busy.
Aloha, Dave
I will wait patiently. Thanks.
Aloha
It had been almost a year since this thread and so last summer I ordered a pandan tree from Florida and paid quite a bit. It did very well all summer but in November when the temp got cool I brought it in but died in my sun room. I do not know if I will buy another one. Belle
Funnily enough, last weekend I was out buying plants and saw they also had Pandanus amaryllifolius. I already have 6 different species of Pandanus and decided against getting a 7th. It was 40 - 50 cms tall and $15
$15.00!!! I wish I paid that low, I paid $38.00 for a 6 inch plant but it grew fast. What do you use it for ? Belle
In Thailand I saw them wrap small pieces of chicken in the pandan leaves and then fry them. I use mine mainly for adding to rice. It makes my cheap rice taste like gourmet rice. I also think it helps the rice from going off so quickly in the hot weather. aloha
I might end up buying one then. I'm not a great cook but I could always start with rice.
Got this from the Wikipedia site:
Culinary use
In Bangladesh it is called Ketaki, along with the other variety of pandan there (Pandanus fascicularis), and is used to enhance the flavour of pulao, biryani and sweet coconut rice pudding, payesh. It is called pandan wangi in Indonesian, soon-mhway in Burmese, and lá dứa in Vietnamese.
The leaves are used either fresh or wilted, and are commercially available in frozen form in Asian grocery stores in nations where the plant does not grow. They have a nutty, botanical fragrance which enhances the flavor of Indonesian, Singaporean, Filipino, Malaysian, Thai, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese and Burmese foods, especially rice dishes and cakes.
The leaves are sometimes steeped in coconut milk, which is then added to the dish. They may be tied in a bunch and cooked with the food. They may also be woven into a basket which is used as a pot for cooking rice. Pandan chicken, or gai ob bai toey, is a Thai dish with chicken wrapped in pandan leaves and fried. The leaves are also used as a flavoring for desserts such as pandan cake and sweet beverages.
The characteristic aroma of pandan is caused by the aroma compound 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline which also gives white bread, jasmine rice and basmati rice (as well as Bread Flowers Vallaris glabra) their typical smell. Bottled pandan extract is also available in shops, but often contains artificial green food coloring. The leaves also have a repellent effect on cockroaches.
This message was edited Feb 13, 2011 12:35 PM
Okay, I finally bit the bullet and bought the plant. Haven't got time to plant it now, will be away with work for a fortnight. It'll give me time to think about where to plant it.
Tropicbreeze,
Plants in your place as well as Canada are a lot cheaper than here in Virginia Beach. I remember visiting a nursery in Montreal and Ontario and found them much cheaper.
I love the smell of pandan and also use the extract. I had not tried it in my tea. Belle