BOTANICAL RECORD
Pandanus amaryllifolius Roxb.
Fragrant pandan · Pandanaceae
At Odo Valley
Odo Valley notes
About twenty plants at Odo Valley, established from plants given by Siddhika around 2022–2023, then planted and replanted by JB. Pandan now grows freely on the site; its leaves are occasionally used to make syrup.
Field observations
From Siddhika to the Odo plantings
- Known date or period
- First plantings around 2022–2023
- Date precision
- Period
- Location
- Odo Valley · Busua · Ghana
- Observer
- JB
- Measurements and units
- Approximately 20 plants
- Siddhika gave the first plants to JB, who planted and replanted them at Odo Valley. They now grow freely there. This history describes an established planting; it does not demonstrate reproduction by seed or naturalisation.
Syrup occasionally prepared at Odo
- Date precision
- Unknown
- Location
- Odo Valley · Busua · Ghana
- Observer
- JB
- The leaves are sometimes made into syrup. This practice is reported by JB; his quantities, process and storage period are not yet documented.
Record sources 7
Sources and origins
Ultrasonic Extraction of 2-Acetyl-1-Pyrroline (2AP) from Pandanus amaryllifolius Roxb. Using Ethanol as Solvent
- Author or institution
- Azhar ANH, Amran NA, Yusup S, Mohd Yusoff MH
- Publication year
- 2022
- Source link
- View source ↗
- DOI
- 10.3390/molecules27154906
- Type
- Research article
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-13
Laboratory extraction study; it does not validate a household maceration, shelf life or clinical benefit.
Are You Storing Food Safely?
- Author or institution
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary reference
- Page, table or passage
- Hygiene and refrigerated storage
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-13
General principles; no pandan syrup shelf life is validated here.
Pandan at Odo Valley — planting history and uses
- Author or institution
- JB
- Publication year
- 2026
- Type
- Direct account
- Geographic origin
- Odo Valley · Busua · Ghana
- Provenance and context
- Account given on 13 September 2026: plants received from Siddhika three or four years earlier, planting and replanting at Odo, about twenty plants growing freely, and occasional syrup preparation.
2022–2023 is approximate; the plant count is an estimate. Geographic provenance before the gift, spontaneous propagation and the personal syrup proportions are unspecified.
Effects of Pandanus Amaryllifolius Leaf Beverage on Postprandial Blood Glucose and Satiety Level in Thai Healthy Volunteers
- Author or institution
- Booranasuksakul U et al.
- Publication year
- 2023
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Research article
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-13
Thirteen healthy adults, a single dose and two-hour follow-up; no conclusion about long-term diabetes treatment.
Pandanus amaryllifolius — Plants of the World Online
- Author or institution
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary reference
- Page, table or passage
- Accepted name, family and native range
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-13
The species’ native range does not identify the provenance of the plants given to Odo.
Pandanus amaryllifolius — NParks Flora & Fauna Web
- Author or institution
- National Parks Board, Singapore
- Publication year
- 2022
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary reference
- Page, table or passage
- Description, propagation and food uses
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-13
Pandanus amaryllifolius — United States Botanic Garden — DSC09526
- Author or institution
- Daderot
- Publication year
- 2013
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Reference photograph
- Geographic origin
- United States Botanic Garden, Washington, D.C.
- Date accessed
- 2026-09-13
- Provenance and context
- Photograph taken on 24 April 2013, published on Wikimedia Commons under CC0 1.0. Reference image from outside Odo Valley.