coconut palm: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Cocos nucifera

Photos

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.

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

A woman crouches on the ground weaving large green coconut palm fronds into mats, surrounded by palm leaves, in an outdoor workspace in Chapra, India.

Coconut palm (Cocos nucifera)

water dispersal

Tall palm trees stand on a manicured lawn with flower beds, overlooking distant hills and water in Hainan province, China.

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