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COCONUTS 'R' US
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COCONUTS MUSEUM
Deane and Chris have included some coconut stories and pieces that we feel are interesting and informative about this unique fruit. Please read on.
Classification
A coconut is the fruit of the coco palm. Palm oil is the fat pressed from the fibrous flesh of the fruit. The total output of palm oil equals that of all other nondrying oils combined. The palm family is classified in the division The Coconuts Palm is in the division Magnoliophyta, class Liliopsida, order Arecales, family Palmae. The coconut palm tree (Cocos nucifera), grows to a height of 60–100 ft, and may yield 75 to 200 coconuts annually.
The flowers of the coconut palm are polygamomonoecious, with both
male and female flowers in the same inflorescence. Flowering occurs continuously, with female flowers producing seeds. Coconut palms are believed to be largely cross-pollinated,although some dwarf varieties are self-pollinating.
Value
A coconut palm is one of the most useful trees in existence, every part of it having some value. The fruit ripe, unripe, raw, cooked, is a food. Large quantities of shredded or desiccated coconut made from copra and many whole coconuts are used in the making of cakes, desserts, and sweets.
The bud (palm cabbage) is considered a delicacy. The milk of the young nut is a nutritious drink. A sweet liquid from the flower bud, ferments into a drink, and can be boiled down to make palm sugars.
The leaves are used for making fans, baskets, and thatch. The coir (coarse fibers from the husk) is made into cordage, mats, and stuffing. The hard shell and the husk are used for fuel. The fibrous center of the trunk is used for ropes, and the timber (porcupine wood), is hard and fine grained. The nutshells are turned into cups and bowls.
The greatest commercial value of the coconut is in the oil. Coconut oil and olive oil are the earliest recorded kids of vegetable oil. Many things are made from coconut commercially in huge quantities; oils, charcoal, cattle food, detergents, hand soap, fertilizer, autofuel and on and on. |
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Agricultural workers watering seedling coconuts : Key Biscayne, 1928
Drug for Humans Checks Palm Tree Disease
July 1983. A disease known as lethal yellowing, threatening coconut palms, seems to have been staved off in parts of Florida, where palm trees have been injected with the drug tetracycline.
A new method of inoculating palms with the antibiotic - better known for its use on humans and animals - has saved many trees in the town of Palm Beach, scientists report, and offers a means of gaining time while they work on long-term ways to forestall damage from the costly malady.
Palm tree savers of florida, still today uses shots to deal with Lethal Yellowing.
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Master Gardener Landscaping of Fort Lauderdale sells coconut palms that are not so effected by lethal yellowing.
We now plant the shorter, fatter Green Malayan Coconut which produces green nuts. We also plant the less popular Golden Malayan which sports yellow nuts and somewhat yellow fronds. There is also a Red Malayan species. These are rated at 95% resistant to Lethal Yellowing
(CICLY) Centre for Information on Coconut Lethal Yellowing willl tell you all you neede to know on this exciting subject.
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Rhio's-raw-food information site has some interesting stuff on coconuts. She is a singer, actress, author, and investigative reporter. Check out the pictures of coconut-picking as a fun family outting. You can do this with your family at coconut picking farms. |
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