Coconut Palm
Cocos nucifera · Arecaceae · 코코넛야자
How to spot it
A long solitary trunk with clearly ringed old leaf scars and a crown of large pinnate leaves at the top.
Look
- Leaves
- Large pinnate leaves with long, narrow leaflets.
- Flowers
- Female flowers and smaller male flowers grow on the same inflorescence.
- Fruit
- The fruit has a fibrous outer layer and a hard inner shell; the seed has white endosperm and a water-filled cavity.
- Bark
- Gray trunk with ring-shaped marks left by fallen old leaves.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Shown as originating in the western Pacific.
- Ecology
- Tolerates salt and wind of tropical coastal environments, and drought once established.
Sources
- NParks Flora & Fauna Web
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- University of Florida / IFAS Gardening Solutions
- University of Florida / IFAS, Cocos nucifera — Coconut Palm
- FAO Ecocrop — Cocos nucifera
- University of Florida IFAS — Cocos nucifera: Coconut Palm
- 퍼듀대학교 NewCROP — Duke, Handbook of Energy Crops 'Cocos nucifera'
- Naval History and Heritage Command(미 해군 역사유산사령부) 'John Fitzgerald Kennedy' — PT 109 서술
- ABC News(호주) 'Solomon Islanders mourn death of Eroni Kumana who helped save life of John F. Kennedy during WWII' (2014-08-03)