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The Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera L.), is a member of the Family Arecaceae (palm family). It is the only species classified in the genus Cocos. The term coconut refers to the fruit of the coconut palm.
1 Origins
The origins of this plant are the subject of debate with some authorities claiming it is native to the Southeast Asian peninsula while others claim its origin is in northwestern South America. Fossil records from New Zealand indicate that small coconut-like plants grew there as far back 15 million years ago. Even older fossils have been uncovered in Rajasthan, India. Regardless of their origins coconuts have spread across much of the tropics, in particular along tropical shorelines. Since its fruit is light and buoyant the plant is readily spread by marine currents which can carry coconuts significant distances. The Coconut palm thrives on sandy, saline soils in areas with abundant sunlight and regular rainfall (75-100 cm annually), which makes colonising the shore relatively straightforward. Fruits collected from the sea as far north as Norway have been found to be viable and have subsequently germinated given the right conditions. However, in the Hawaiian Islands, the coconut is regarded as a Polynesian introduction, first brought to the Islands by early Polynesian voyagers from their homelands in the South Pacific.
2 The fruit
BotanicallyBotany is the scientific study of plants. As a branch of biology, it is also sometimes referred to as plant science(s or plant biology . Botany covers a wide range of scientific disciplines that study the growth, reproduction, metabolism, development, dis speaking, a coconut is a simple dry fruitIn botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which would be plum, apple, and or known as a fibrous drupeThe peach is a typical drupe (stone fruit In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a s (not a nut). The husk (mesocarp) is fibrous and there is an inner "stone" (the endocarp). This hard endocarp (which is the "coconut" you find in the stores of non-tropical countries) has three germinationIn a botanical sense, germination is the process of emergence of growth from a resting stage. We typically think of the sprouting of a seedling from a seed of a flowering plant or gymnosperm. However, the growth of a hypha from a fungal spore is also germ poreA pore in general, is some form of opening, usually very small. Pores can be found on many organisms, such as in plants, animals, and humans. More commonly, in talking about the skin, a pore is an opening that secretes sebaceous oil to lubricate and protes that are clearly visible on the outside surface once the husk is removed. It is through one of these that the radicleIn botany, the radicle is the first part of a seedling (a growing plant embryo) to emerge from the seed during germination. The radicle is the embryonic root of the plant, and grows downward in the soil. Above the radicle is the embryonic stem or hypocoty emerges when the embryotadpole) of the wrinkled frog Rana rugosa . An embryo is an animal or a plant in its earliest stage of development. Plants In botany, a plant embryo is part of a seed, consisting of precursor tissues for the leaves, stem (see hypocotyl , and root (see rad germinates. When viewed on end, the endocarp and germination pores resemble the face of a monkeyFor the TV show Monkey see Monkey (TV series Cynomolgus Monkey at Batu Caves, Malaysia A monkey is any member of two of the three groupings of simian primates. These two groupings are the New World and Old World monkeys. Because of their similarity to mon, the Portuguese word for which is coco.
