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Green coconuts 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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Green coconuts Ripening coconuts on a coconut palm (Cocos nucifera).

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Coconut, edible fruit of the coconut palm (Cocos nucifera), a tree of the palm family (Arecaceae). Coconuts probably originated somewhere in Indo-Malaya and are one of the most important crops of the tropics. Coconut flesh is high in fat and can be dried or eaten fresh or processed into coconut milk or coconut oil. The liquid of the nut, known as coconut water, is used in beverages. A single coconut palm may yield 100 coconuts...

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