Coconut tree
Cocos nucifera
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At a glance
- Scientific name
- Cocos nucifera
- Group
- Monocotyledon
- Order
- Arecales
- Family
- Arecaceae
- Continent
- Asia, Oceania
- Habitat
- Coast
- Form
- Tree
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Blooms in
- Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter
- Use
- Food, Fibre, Drink, Oil
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Easy
Did you know?
- Its fruit floats, and a coconut can drift on ocean currents for weeks or months before sprouting on a distant beach.
- Botanically a coconut is not a true nut but a fibrous drupe, the same kind of fruit as a peach.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q13187 · All plants · All entries