Coconut: Quick Facts

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water dispersal

Open tin can filled with coconut milk sits on a green palm frond, with two whole coconuts in the background.

Cluster of ripe coconuts growing on a coconut palm tree with green fronds, viewed from below against a blue sky on Christmas Island, Kiribati.

Worker wearing a helmet stands at a production line handling piles of coconut fiber in an industrial facility in Conde, Bahia, Brazil, with large bales of fiber in the foreground.

Dispersal of several types of seeds.

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