Cocos nucifera L.
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| Family: | ARECACEAE |
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| Sub-Family: | Not available | ||||
| English Name: | Coconut Tree | ||||
| Synonym: | Calappa nucifera (L.)Kuntze. | ||||
| Common Name: | Shubaga | ||||
| Flowering & Fruiting Period: | Throughout the year | ||||
| Distribution: | Cultivated throughout the tropics | ||||
| Habitat: | Cultivated | ||||
| Uses: | Nut edible, oil yielding, firewood, house making, remedy for urinary disorders. | ||||
| Key Characteristics: | Coconut trees are erect trees with annular petiolar scars. Leaves pinnatisect, 4-6 m long. Spadices interfoliar, panicled. Spathe oblong, woody. Flowers monoecious. Male flowers: often paired. Sepals ovate. Petals ovate, woody, yellowish-brown. Stamens 6; pistillode short, 3-fid. Female flowers, basal, globose. Perianth-lobes 6; woody; outer lobes broadly obovate. Ovary 3-celled; ovule 1 per cell; style short. Drupe ovoid or globose, trigonous; pericarp fibrous; endocarp stony. Seed coherent with the endocarp. | ||||