Coconut Fruit

coconut fruit

Coconut fruit is very amazing, from the young fruit until to old fruit is delicious to drink. Coconut fruit also already made by people to many variety of food, these can be drinks or foods.

Coconut (cocos nucifera) is probably the most economically important and widely distributed of all palm. This wonderfully useful plant probably originated in eastern Indonesia or Malanesia (although many believe it is of heavenly origin), but is now found in nearly all tropical countries. The fruit disperse naturally by floating in ocean currents, but the present distribution is largely a result of deliberate planting by people. It is a large palm, growing up to 30 meters, with a slender stem which is slightly swollen at the base, often curved or slanted with a crown of spirally arranged, pinnate leaves. The inflorescence is produced in the leaf axils and bears separate male and female flowers. The first flowers and fruit are produced after six years and fruiting continuous up to 70 years. Fruits mature in about 12 months, by which time they reach an average weight of 1.5 kilograms, ripening to green, brown or yellow-orange.