Pandanus tectorius
Heavily modified for copra production in the early twentieth century, Takutea's vegetation has since been left to recover. A strip of coastal vegetation surrounds a core of native scrub, native forest, and mixed native and coconut forest. The coastal vegetation is dominated by "Scaevola sericea" intersp[ersed with "Heliotropium arboreum" and "Pandanus tectorius". The inner forest is dominated by "Pisonia grandis", "Guettarda speciosa", and Coconut, with an underlayer of "Tacca leontopetaloides" and "Asplenium australasicum". A small area of planted Pacific Ironwood in the northwest of the island was planted in the 1960s as a windbreak.