Pandanus Trees

Pandanus palms are my favorite trees up here in Kakadu. On the pandanus trees pic you can see the nuts hanging on them, they look like pineapples and honest to goodness smell like hot cinnamon buns. I picked a bunch of them and now have baby
pandanus trees growing in our back yard. The Aboriginal ladies make the most beautiful baskets and mats out of the leaves.
They have jagged edges, and sometimes the ladies will have bloody toes and legs and hands from handling them. They pound the red and yellow rocks to dye them and the purple comes from the root of a native plant. I love to watch them work and we
have collected quite a few of the baskets.