Formerly, before gunny sacks came into general use, coffee was packed in pandanbags and where pandans did not grow they were introduced and cultivated for that purpose.
From the information submitted with the specimens received in the Bureau of Education, it is to be judged that the economic importance of the common pandan in the Philippines is of but little consequence.
The weakest point in the mat at the present time is in the colored buri straw used to decorate it, for this tears long before the pandan shows signs of wear.
It is probable that much better material could be prepared from this pandan if such processes as are used in the making of sabutan straw and straw from the Majayjay pandan were followed.
At this writing, information is not at hand to determine the method of preparing the straw or the species of pandanfrom which they are made.
There is a large export of pandan mats from Dao, Antique, to the province of Iloilo.
Still, on small islands, such as the Coral and Marshall Islands, the natives construct their huts from pandan wood.
Pandan mats are made and used widely in the Philippines.
Bearing in mind this middle row of spines it is impossible to mistake the leaf of the pandan for that of the pineapple or maguey, which it resembles more or less in form and shape.
Certain pandan fruit is extremely oily and serves at times as a substitute for butter.
The pandan has two kinds of flowers, male and female.
Philippine mat straws can be divided into three classes--palm straws, pandan straws, and straws obtained from sedges.
It is stated, however, that these regions abound in the species of pandanfrom which the mats are made.
Like sabutan, thispandan grows best in the half-shade near streams, and leaves grown in the sun are considered inferior.
It is a question among botanists whether the pandan known as sabutan is a variety of the common sea-shore pandan (P.
Usually weavers own their patch of pandan from which the leaves are obtained for making the straw.
Not another day," said Collingwood's voice, as he stepped into the path clear in view from behind the pandan bushes.
Mrs. Maclaughlin after a last hopeless look at the sea, threw herself down in the shade of the pandan bushes and went to sleep.
She was nibbling a ratched edge of pandan fibre which she had stripped as they talked; but her expression was one of bitter accusation.
At the worst we might have to spend a night under the pandan bushes.
They stood close to a great clump of pandan bushes where a path, making a short cut from the cottages to the point, led away through the bunched sand grass.
There a clump of pandan bushes made a shelter against the wind, which, as if satisfied with the havoc it had wrought, ceased for fully five minutes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pandan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
