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81. Fruits.
Common name: coconut Scientific name: Cocos nucifera L. Family: Arecaceae (Palm family) Plant part used: endosperm (food reserves in the seed) Where grown: throughout the Tropics Native to: Indo-Pacific region Use: Coconut is used for oil, food, fiber, and drink.
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Google PR: The coconut is the most familiar palm of the tropics, yet until recently its origin was hotly disputed. Its seeds will still germinate after floating in seawater for 3-4 months.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The progress in research toward the conservation of coconut biodiversity in Sri Lanka and the utilization of germplasm for the development of improved cultivars is reviewed.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: 1 Agricultural Research Station, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Bhavanisagar 638 451, Erode District, Tamil Nadu, India 2 Department of Plant Pathology, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore-641 003, Tamil Nadu, India *kamals2k@yahoo.co.in
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Potassium Deficiency in Coconut Palm ( Cocos nucifera
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75% healthy, 10.62% infected) and crude fibre (13.13% healthy, 10.01% infected) contents were lower in the infected fruit. There was no significant difference in the ash (1.19% infected and 1.66% healthy) content of the samples. However moisture content of healthy fruit (36.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: The coconut is found along tropical seashores around the world, and in some areas it is cultivated far inland. It provides man with food, drink, fuel oil, and many other products. There are about 8.5 million acres of coconuts, of which 2.45 million are in the Philippines, 1.59 in India, 1.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: definition of the term 'coconut': large hard-shelled oval nut with a fibrous husk containing thick white meat surrounding a central cavity filled (when fresh) with fluid or milk
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Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Enlarge Description Coconut Cup with Cover, ca. 1533 34 Hans van Amsterdam (Low Countries, 's Hertogenbosch, recorded 1535 65) Silver gilt, coconut (Cocos nucifera); H. 10 7/8 in. (27.6 cm), Diam. 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm) Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1917 (17.190.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Climatic conditions: The coconut is a tropical plant, and grows in temperatures between 20oC and 25oC, but the best temperature is 27oC. It is usually found growing along the coastline. Origin: The coconut is native to southern Brazil and Paraguay where wild relatives occur.
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The main objectives of the study are to address questions about the monophyly of the five subtribes of Cocoeae; the closest relatives of Cocos nucifera; and the evolution of endocarps.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: A solitary palm with a stout trunk particularly at the base, it is rarely vertical, with long pinnate arching leaves at the top. Old leaves are regularly shed. The large fruits have a fibrous husk, rarely less than 20 cm long.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Glomerella cingulata (Stonem.) Spaulding & Schrenk (anomorph: Colletotrichum gloeosporiodes Penz.
Details Hits: 0 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Coconut Robert E. Paull1 and Saichol Ketsa2 1 Department of Tropical Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 2 Department of Horticulture, Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand Scientific Name and Introduction: Coconut (Cocos nucifera L.
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This palm has a leaning slender trunk and a heavy crown of pinnate foliage. It prefers sunshine, tolerates salt, and in warm areas, is used extensively as a landscape plant. It will freeze at 29°F, though some have been known to survive 25°F.
Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: EXCERPT Product Requirements TONGA LAST UPDATED: 12/31/96 COCOS NUCIFERA (Coconut) FRUIT PLANTS SEEDS FRUIT plant part Fruits are prohibited. Do not certify unless an IP is presented. PLANTS plant part Plants are prohibited. Do not certify unless an IP is presented. SEEDS plant part Seeds
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Details Hits: 1 Votes: 0 Ratings: Reviews: Google PR: Leaf: Alternate, pinnately compound, up to 18 feet long; individual leaflets, lance shaped and 2 to 3 feet long, dark green, arching, the leaf bases wrapped by a burlap-like husk.
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