Looking for diamonds? All you need to do is find this plant

Looking for diamonds? Well all you need to do is find one plant: the Pandanus candelabrum.[caption id="attachment_2238352" align="alignleft" width="380"] Flickr/Creative Commons[/caption]This plant supposedly could help geologists find diamond deposits in the ground has been discovered in Africa.The "diamond plant"  only grows over diamond-bearing rocks called kimberlites, according to a geophysicist called Stephen Haggerty.Haggerty claims in his study that the plant only grows along the kimberlite and not over the adjacent ground, it will make hunting for diamond deposits a whole lot easier.This is the first time a plant has been found that can possibly identify the location of a diamond mine successfully."This could dramatically change the exploration dynamics for diamonds in West Africa, as geobotanical mapping and sampling is cost-effective in tough terrain," Haggerty says.The plant grows to a height of 10 metres or more and has mangrove trees like roots.Haggerty wants to work out whether the plant can be recognised from aerial or satellite imagery - doing so could make finding deposits much easier.