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==News About Pandan== | ==News About Pandan== | ||
'''Rampe or Pandan – A Medicinal and Aromatic Plant in Southeast Asia''' | |||
*Source:http://www.slguardian.org/2016/08/rampe-or-pandan-a-medicinal-and-aromatic-plant-in-southeast-asia/ | |||
:By Dr. Lalith Gunasekera | |||
Plant Family: Pandanaceae | |||
Botanical name: PANDANUS AMARYLLIFOLIUS | |||
Common names: rampe (Sinhalese), ramba (Tamil), pandan (Spanish, Duch), umbrella tree, screw pine (English), pandan wangi (Malaysia). | |||
(Queensland, Sri Lanka Guardian) Rampe is the only Pandanus species with scented leaves. The sweet smell of freshly harvested leaves is similar to the fragrant of expensive Indian basmati, Thai Jasmine or Japanese kaorimai rice. The origin of Rampe remains a mystery and controversy because there is only one report of a male flowering specimen, none of a female and the species seems not to be known in the wild. Today its distributed in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore and Western New Guinea. | |||
Rampe is a medicinal and aromatic plant that grows upright with narrow blade leaves and woody aerial roots. The plant has two distinct growth forms. If the plant leave undisturbed, it develops into a small tree with usually unbranched, palm like stem and large leaves (up to 2 m long and 7-9 cm wide). If leaves are continuously harvested, it will instead acquire a low, shrubbier form with smaller leaves (25- 75 cm long and 2-5 cm wide) and without a visible trunk. This small growth form is favoured by ever wet tropical climate, but can slowly revert into the large growth form if left undisturbed. No one has ever captured the evidence of its whole inflorescence (flowers) or fruits. The vegetative reproductive system of Rampe is believed to be a result of long term cultivation. It has not been discovered in the wild and only survives in domesticated conditions. | |||
Rampe is mainly propagated by suckers or by stem cuttings. Suckers removed from leaf axils can be planted straight away or rooted first in a sandy medium. This species is available in some of the tropical plant nurseries in Queensland. | |||
The rampe plant grows very well in tropical Queensland. The plant loves high rainfall, high humidity and year around warm temperatures. Leaves always used fresh (slightly wilted). The leave’s aroma is distinct and hard to describe, somewhat nutty, reminiscent to fresh hay and definitely pleasant. The scent of rampe leaves develops only on wilting. The fresh, intact plants hardly have any odour. On the other hand, dried rampe leaves lose their fragrance quite quickly. The flavour component of rampe leaves is not well investigated. It is speculated that the flavour is due to a volatile product of oxidative degradation of a yellow carotenoid pigment that forms only when the leaves withers. | |||
:Uses: | |||
Rampe leaves extract is a valuable antioxidant source and applicable in healthcare and food industry in South Asian region. It’s amazing as it is used in so many cultures in cooking including Sri Lankan, Indonesian, Singaporean, Filipono, Malaysian, Thai, Bangladeshi, Vietnamese, Chinese, South indian, Burmese and papua new guinea. The leaves of rampe are used either fresh or dried, and are commercially available in frozen form in Asian grocery stores in nations where the plant does not grow. | |||
:• Rampe leaves are widely using in South Asain culinary delights as food flavour and green colouring. Creatively in using rampe leaves to enhance cuisine attractiveness are notably in strait Chinese dessert. Famous daily meal with such as “Nasi Lemak” in Malaysia and “Nasi Kuning” in Indonesia are prepared by cooking the rice with coconut milk and rampe leaves. | |||
:• Leaves of rampe are widely used to flavour ordinary rice to resemblance expensive aromatic rice cultivars such as basmati and jasmine. | |||
:• Fried chicken wrapped in rampe leaves is a delicacy some South Asian communities. | |||
:• Rampe juice extract from the leaves are used for flavouring and colouring cakes. | |||
:• The dried leaves powder has been widely used in ice cream, yogurt, soup, tea and jam in Malaysia. | |||
:• Wide usage in food industry result in Geneva based International Standards Organisation (ISO) included rampe in the list of herbs and spices. Rampe essence has potential to become substitute to vanilla essence. | |||
:• Filipino cuisine uses rampe leaves as flavouring in fruit salad and rice based pastries and numerous sweet drinks and desserts. | |||
:• Rampe leaves appear more frequently in sweet puddings or custards based on sticky rice. | |||
:• Leaves are also used in some traditional medicine such as remedy for toothache and | |||
:• Useful for healing various wounds, leprosy and smallpox. | |||
:• Cure headache. | |||
:• Reduce fever, earache, arthritis, stomach spasms and more. | |||
:• Chewing rampe leaves helps to heel gum pain and bad breath. | |||
:• Useful for the treatment of several skin disorders. | |||
:• Useful for the preparation of various herbal teas. | |||
:• Rampe roots extracts are used to cure thyroid problems. | |||
:Growing as a landscaping plant | |||
Rampa is a low growing plant with long narrow leaves and woody aerial roots. It can be grown as a marginal plant in dams and ponds and used as a bedding plant in tropical landscaping and be used to hold creek bank from erosion.. | |||
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'''Pandan (Pandanus amaryllifolius)''' | '''Pandan (Pandanus amaryllifolius)''' | ||
*Source:http://garden-notes-from-hawaii.blogspot.com/2013/12/pandan-pandanus-amaryllifolius.html | *Source:http://garden-notes-from-hawaii.blogspot.com/2013/12/pandan-pandanus-amaryllifolius.html | ||