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COCO DE MER, or DOUBLE

This article appears in Volume V06, Page 631 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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COCO DE MER, or DOUBLE Coco-NUT, a

palm

, Lodoicea Sechellarum, which is a native of the

Seychelles

SEYCHELLES

Islands. The

flowers

FLOWERS, ARTIFICIAL

are borne in enormous fleshy spadices, the male and

female

FEMALE

on distinct

plants

PLANTS

. The fruits, which are among the largest known, take ten years to ripen; they have a fleshy and fibrous envelope surrounding a hard nut-like portion which is generally two-lobed, suggesting a large

double

coco-nut. The contents of the nut are edible as in the coco-nut. The empty fruits (after germination of the seed) are found floating in the

Indian

INDIAN

Ocean, and were known

long

before the

palm

was discovered, giving rise to various stories as to their origin.

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