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Coconut Palm
Coconut Palm
Cocos nucifera
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
Up to 80 yrs
Size
Large
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Tropical coastline
Range
Southeast Asia
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Armor
Status
Common

About

An iconic tropical palm whose buoyant, husk-clad fruits can drift across oceans for months and still sprout when they wash ashore. A single tree can yield coconuts continuously for sixty to eighty years.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Liliopsida
Order
Arecales
Family
Arecaceae
Genus
Cocos
Species
Cocos nucifera