Fruit · Medicinal · Palm
Dwarf Coconut Trees
Cocos nucifera L.
The Philippines and the Pacific
Fun factThe genus name comes from the Spanish coco, a monkey face, because of the three eyes on the shell; nuts can float for up to 110 days, long enough to drift about 4,800 km on ocean currents.
The coconut is a single-trunked palm with a base swollen at the ground and a crown of large pinnate leaves. Dwarf forms rarely exceed about 8 m and come into fruit earlier than tall coconuts, which makes them suited to gardens, though their meat is regarded as lower quality for commercial use. Tall coconuts can exceed 24 m and live around 90 years, bearing up to 50 nuts a year once mature.
Sourced · see Record tab
9on the estate
0carrying a tag
0sponsored
FamilyArecaceae
Spanish namePalma de coco
Also known asCoconut palm, Dwarf coconut, Dwarf Coconut, Palma de coco, Coco
Native toCentral Malesia and the southwest Pacific (Philippines, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Samoa); its precise origin has long been debated
| Tag | Garden area | Zone | Planted | Status | Sponsored | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Welcome Center Rear | B | 26 May 2014 | Planted | — | |
| — | Welcome Center Rear | B | 26 May 2014 | Planted | — | |
| — | Welcome Center Rear | B | 26 May 2014 | Planted | — | |
| — | Welcome Center Rear | B | 26 May 2014 | Planted | — | |
| — | Welcome Center Rear | B | 26 May 2014 | Planted | — | |
| — | Welcome Center Rear | B | 26 May 2014 | Planted | — | |
| — | Welcome Center Rear | B | 26 May 2014 | Planted | — | |
| — | Welcome Center Rear | B | 26 May 2014 | Planted | — | |
| — | — | — | — | In Nursery | — | 8 trees remaining. Jorge took 4. Planted 3 on home driveway. 3 on driveway & rest on south river |
9 of these have no tag yet; they will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.