Flora includes breadfruit, pandanus, and coconut palms. The subsistence economy consists of fishing and breadfruit, banana, taro, and pandanus cultivation. All the islets are wooded with coconut palms, pandanus, and native trees. The other locally grown components of their diet included coconuts and pandanus fruit. The cyclone did significant and widespread damage to food crops including bananas, coconuts and pandanus. They weave dyed pandanus leaves into baskets. Most houses are made of materials obtained from coconut and pandanus trees. Austronesians traditionally made their sails from woven mats of the resilient and salt-resistant pandanus leaves. Most Fijian mats are made from the leaves of the pandanus tree. Inhabitants of the islands are known for their pandanus fiber weaving skills. Small-fruited pandanus may be bitter and astringent. The body is rolled up into pandanus mat. It is an angiosperm belonging to the genus "Pandanus" of the family Pandanaceae. It is well known for its diet, which consists primarily of ripe fruit, especially "Pandanus". As with other member of the genus Pandanus, "P. utilis" lacks secondary growth.