What does a coconut tree look like?

Coconut is a large plant of the genus Coconut in Palmaceae. it is an important tropical woody oil crop. The famous tropical fruit coconut is the fruit of coconut. Its broad distribution is related to the fact that the fruit coconut can be propagated far away from the mother tree after drifting thousands of kilometers in the sea. Coconut has been recorded in Historical Records of China more than 2000 years ago, which has high economic value, and all parts of the plant have uses.

The trunk of the coconut tree is straight, 15 to 30 meters high, with a single crown and a neat shape. Leaves pinnatisect, 4-6 m long, lobes numerous, leathery, linear-lanceolate, 65-100 cm long, 3-4 cm wide, apex acuminate. Petiole stout, more than 1 m long. Inflorescences axillary, 1.5 × 2 m long, much branched. Nuts Obovate or subglobose, apical slightly trigonous, 15-25 cm long, endocarp bony, 3 sprouting pores near the base, 1 seed.

Coconut trees usually begin to bear fruit after 5-6 years, 15-18 years is the peak period, there are 40-80 fruits per plant, most of them are more than 100, and the economic life span is more than 80 years. The number of leaves produced each year varies with different tree age. it tends to increase with the increase of tree age before the peak period, and decreases slightly after the peak period, but it can still remain constant. In a year, the number of budding is the most from May to June and the least from November to December. The inflorescence was exposed 3.5 months after the bud was drawn, and it took 12 months from fertilization to fruit maturation from July to September when the flower blossomed most.

Coconut trees are native to southeast Asia, Indonesia to the Pacific Islands, and are cultivated in the southern islands of Guangdong, Leizhou Peninsula, Hainan, Taiwan and southern Yunnan. There are mainly three kinds of varieties: green coconut, coconut and red coconut, which have formed many types and varieties in long-term natural selection and artificial selection. Now it is often considered that there are wild species and cultivated species from the point of view of cultivated varieties. Among them, the cultivated varieties can be divided into high species, dwarf varieties and hybrids.

Coconut trees are uniformly distributed in the coastal areas where the average annual temperature is 2627 ℃, the annual temperature difference is small, and the annual rainfall is 1300-2300mm. The annual light is more than 2000 hours and the elevation is less than 50 meters. It is a tropical light-loving crop, which grows well under the conditions of high temperature, rainy, sufficient sunshine and sea breeze. It is suitable to grow at low altitude, and the suitable soil for growth is marine alluvial soil and riparian alluvial soil, followed by sandy loam, gravel and clay.

There are more than 360 kinds of comprehensive utilization products of coconut trees, which can produce different products and are fully utilized in different industries. it is a unique renewable, green and environment-friendly resource in the tropics. Coconut meat can be squeezed oil, raw food, cooking, can also be made into coconut milk, coconut, shredded coconut, canned coconut paste and coconut sugar, biscuits, coconut water can be used as cool drinks, coconut fiber can be made into brushes, carpets, cables, etc., coconut shells can be made into various handicrafts, high-grade activated carbon, tree trunks can be used as building materials, leaves can be roofed or woven, coconut trees are excellent tree species for greening and beautifying the environment in tropical areas, and coconut roots can be used as medicine.