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    1464 COCONUT PALM

    COCONUT PALM
    J J Lal and C V Sreeranjit Kumar, Centre for plant seed in the world and looks like two coconuts
    Development of Science and Technology, Thrissur, joined together side by side. Macapuno is a Philippine
    Kerala, India variety of the coconut palm that does not have any
    M Indira, University of Kerala, Thiruvananthapuram, water inside the coconut shell. Its ‘meat’ is a soft jelly-
    Kariavattom, India like substance that is used in popular Filipino sweets.
    Copyright 2003, Elsevier Science Ltd. All Rights Reserved. Coconut palm adapts to almost all types of well- 0004

    drained tropical soils like coastal sand, red loam,


    laterite, alluvial, and the reclaimed soil of the marshy
    low land. A water table that is too high and remains
    Background
    static for long periods is harmful, but the palm
    0001 This is a graceful palm, 20–30 m in height, and native can tolerate salinity and a wide range of pHs from
    to the tropical regions of the world. Its requirement of 5.0 to 8.0.
    high humidity, abundant rainfall (60 cm) and mean Coconut palm is propagated with the help of seeds. 0005

    annual temperature of about 33  F makes the sea Seeds are selected from healthy, high-yielding, and
    coast its usual habitat. Characterized by tall slender regularly bearing palms. One-year-old healthy seed-
    and uniformly thick stem and massive crown with a lings with a minimum of six leaves are selected for
    large number of paripinnate leaves bearing bunches planting. Nine-month-old seedlings with a minimum
    of nuts in their axils, the palm enhances the natural of four leaves can also be used for planting. The
    panoramic beauty of countries where it is extensively square system of planting, with a spacing of 7.5–9 m
    cultivated. It is a long-lived plant that may live as long accommodates, 124–177 palms per hectare. The
    as 100 years (Figure 1).
    0002 The fact that the coconut palm could be found
    throughout the tropics, even before the advent
    of European explorers, renders the tracing of its
    origin quite difficult. Coconut was first mentioned
    by an Egyptian monk, Cosmos Indicopleustes in
    ‘Topographia Christiana’ in ad 545. The most im-
    portant regions of coconut production are the Philip-
    pine islands, Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and Sri
    Lanka.
    0003 There are several different varieties of coconut
    palms, including tall and dwarf. The common tall
    varieties are Ceylon tall, Indian tall, Jamaica tall,
    Malayan tall, Java tall, and Laguna. Malayan dwarf,
    Dwarf green, Dwarf orange, and Dwarf Fijian are
    some of the dwarf varieties. Tall varieties are com-
    monly cultivated for commercial purpose. Tall var-
    ieties are slow to mature and produce the first flowers
    6–10 years after planting. The life span of tall var-
    ieties is about 60–100 years. Dwarf varieties may
    grow to a height of 7.5–9 m, produce the first flowers
    after 3 years, and have a life span of about 30 years.
    Dwarf varieties are thought to have originated as a
    result of a mutation of tall types. D
    T (dwarf
    tall)
    and T
    D (tall
    dwarf) hybrids are early bearers and
    are found to be superior to their parents in terms of
    yield under favorable conditions. There are also sev-
    eral unusual types of coconut palms in different parts
    of the world. Lodoicea maldivica, a palm very closely
    related to coconut is known as double coconut or
    Maldive nut. Its nut is considered to be the largest
    Figure 1 (see color plate 37) Coconut palm. fig0001

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