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| One of the many species of Pandanaceae family in Bulusan |
In this light, I have decided to speed up my gallery of plant photographs from Bulusan, my hometown, with each plant correspondingly identified and curated by PhytoImages' pool of experts.
For those interested to view the gallery, you may visit this page at Phytoimages.
The above photo of a Bulusan pandan species is included in the gallery. More photos are lined up for uploading in the next few days hopefully with the known scientific identification ready.
Photo: Alma P. Gamil
Bulusan, Sorsogon, Philippines
Good Day Maam Alma,
ReplyDeleteI am Kim Christopher Aganda, a graduate student form the university of Santo Tomas. I saw your post regarding the pandanus plant that may be found in bulusan. I am currently researching the pandanus species, some parts of my research will require that I study a live plant. Therefore I am planning to acquire some pandanus plant as part of the study (around 6 species). I understand that some of these pandans grow very big so I am targeting small to medium sized plants or younger pandan plant. I would like to inquire if you happen to know where i can buy pandanus plant? I will greatly appreciate any help that I can get.
Thank you for your time
Respectfully,
Kim
In Bulusan, pandan seedlings/suckers for planting are not usually for sale (if not in bulk). These are given freely by farm patches'owners with existing groves of karagumoy a pandan species utilized for making hats by locals. The leaves however are for sale per hundred.
ReplyDeleteBariw, another pandan for handicrafts is harvested from the wild.
Btw, what particular pandanus species are you currently researching? I mean, the purpose, culinary or handicrafts?
Pandan for cooking is available in Manila.
You are welcome, Kim!