Sanjay Kotha

  

PLANT NAME :    Cocos Nucifera (coconut)

PLANTED BY  :    Sanjay Kotha
DATE                :     01-1-2024
TIME                :     10:30 AM

      

                              PLANT LOCATION

 PLANT DESCRIPTION 

The coconut palm is a long-lived plant; it has a single trunk, 20-30 meter tall, its bark is smooth and gray, marked by ringed scars left by fallen leaf bases. The tree can live as long as 100 years producing an annual yield of 50 to 100 coconuts. The tree can live as long as 100 years producing an annual yield of 50 to 100 coconuts.

CLASSIFICATIONS AND CHARACTERISTICS

Plant Division	Angiosperms (Flowering Seed Plants) (Monocotyledon)
Plant Growth Form	Palm (Solitary Palm)
Mode of Nutrition	Autotrophic

Maximum Height	30 m
Maximum Plant Spread / Crown Width	6 m

BIOGEOGRAPHY

Native Distribution	Originally Western Pacific, today Pantropical

DESCRIPTION AND ETHNOBOTANY

Growth Form	A relatively fast-growing, solitary, slender, unarmed palm which characteristically front the coast in tropical regions and is the allusion of lush, tropical paradises with sandy beaches.
Trunk	Stem tall, slender, grey, prominently ringed with old leaf scars (when the leaf die off, it will fall off cleanly from the trunk, leaving a neat rectangular pattern of circular scars).
Foliage	Fronds pinnate, large, up to 5 m long, yellowish-green to dark green, ascending to spreading to drooping, bearing 80 to 100 pairs of leaflets that taper to a split tip, with prominently elevated midrib; leaflets simple, lanceolate, 1.5 to 5 cm wide, 50 to 150 cm long.

Flowers	Inflorescences spreading, 1.2 to 1.6 m long, cream to yellow, arising from within the lower fronds, consisting of 5 female flowers (with each set between 2 smaller male flowers), enclosed by two bracts (60 to 90 cm long) for protection purposes; inner bract is woody and pointed; male flowers will open about 10 to 20 days to encourage cross-pollination, before the female flowers open.
Fruit	Fruits ovoid, up to 30 cm long, ripening from light green or yellow to brown, consisting of a smooth outer skin (exocarp), a fibrous husk (mesocarp) and a hardy woody shell (endocarp); seed has a narrow, white layer of edible endosperm (flesh) and a large cavity filled with water.

LANDSCAPING FEATURES

Landscape Uses	Coastal, Roadside Tree / Palm, Beachfront / Shoreline

FAUNA, POLLINATION AND DISPERSAL

Fauna Pollination Dispersal Associated Fauna	Caterpillar Food Plant

PLANT CARE AND PROPAGATION

Light Preference	Full Sun
Water Preference	Moderate Water

FOLIAR

Mature Foliage Colour(s)	Green
Leaf Area Index (LAI) for Green Plot Ratio	2.5 (Palm - Solitary)

NON - FOLIAR AND STORAGE

Trunk Type (Palm)	Solitary Habit, Aboveground

FLORAL (ANGIOSPERM)

Flower Colour(s)	Cream / Off-White, Yellow / Golden

FRUIT, SEED AND SPORE

Mature Fruit Colour(s)	Brown, Green, Yellow / Golden

OTHERS

Master ID	31224
Species ID	5618
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