Pandanus conicus H.St.John

Tree to 7 (–10) m high, sometimes sprawling; short prop roots sometimes present; trunk with numerous conical, somewhat prickly nodules. Leaves arched to drooping, 1–1.4 m long, to 6 cm wide, sometimes glaucous; margins with prickles throughout or absent towards base; midrib with prickles near apex. Male flowers not seen. Fruiting head solitary, pendulous, globose to broadly ovoid–ellipsoid, with 20–45 phalanges, reddish orange to bright red. Phalanges of 9–16 carpels, orbicular to very broadly obovoid, laterally compressed, 4–6-angled, 3.5–6 cm long, 2.5–4 cm across, truncate; sides smooth, shiny when fresh, without visible sutures. Carpel apices crowded towards centre of phalange, ± conical, 4–6 (–7) mm high; stigma vertical below ± hooded tip of carpel.

It is a tropical plant. It grows naturally in rainforests in NE Queensland in Australia. It grows near mangroves and up to 400 m altitude. In Townsville Anderson BG.

The fruit are edible but can irritate the throat and mouth.

It can be grown from seed and from stolons or runners.