Common names (English):

Coconut

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Cultivated throughout tropics.

Use: Culinary/ Oil

Description:

Erect trees with annular petiolar scars. Leaves pinnatisect, 4-6 m long; leaflets reduplicate, 60-100 cm long. Spadices interfoliar, 50-100 cm long, panicled. Spathe 60-130 cm long, oblong, woody. Flowers monoecious, subsessile. Male flowers: often paired, to 8 mm long. Female flowers 1-3 per branch. Drupe to 30 cm long, ovoid or globose; pericarp fibrous; endocarp stony; seed coherent with the endocarp.

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