May 5 / Ajay

What is so special about this Coconut Tree?

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I received this image over email. It is a picture of a coconut tree, not just any coconut tree but a rare one.

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Can you tell me what is so rare / special about this tree?

Disclaimer: I am not aware of the source or the photographer of this image. If you know the person, please let me know so that I can get in touch with him / her.

Pickster C. / May 5 2006

Hmm… are those mangoes?
Karthik / May 5 2006

Usually coconut trees do not branch out. This one has branches and also coconuts in each of the branches.
Ann / May 5 2006

I live in the tropics and agree with Karthik. I’ve never seen a branching coconut tree before–and I’ve seen thousands of coconut trees. They’re usually just one straight stem up to the nuts cache and foliage burst. Beautiful and very productive like this, though!!
Ajay / May 6 2006

Right on that one Karthik, I really wonder where this coconut tree is actually from :O
Anzil / Sep 22 2006

The Three Heads palm is a rare botanical curiosity. It amounts to just one case, reported on a plantation of approximatively 1,000 hectares, (i.e. 150,000 palms) of a coconut tree whose stem has branched on two occasions.
Usually, the coconut palm only has a single terminal bud which emits all the organs: bunches, fronds and stem. This single bud, which is well protected, functions continually in a system of vertical spirals. In general, 12 to 18 fronds and inflorescences are produced each year. Over the same period, the coconut palm produces from 20 to 160 cm of stem, depending on the age and variety. therefore a coconut palm will never stop growing, until it dies.
PLEASE VISIT http://coconutfreaks.blogspot.com/

Regards

Anzil
Ajay / Sep 22 2006

Nice find Anzil
angel / Oct 11 2007

Whew!! this is my first time to a coconut tree with many branches!!
Many / Oct 21 2007

Yup, the coconut tree has too many branches: a normal one would only have one long stem.
Jalaj / Oct 25 2007

My guess when I saw the photo was for the multiple branches which proved to be correct when read through comment. Anzil has come up with a good description.
William Light / Oct 30 2007

first of all i would like to ask onething sure, is it a true real photo. i just cant believe it. well i have seen lot of coconut trees, even with two branches i have seen. but this coconut tree is amazing, branches out in cluster having coconuts in each and every branches.

good explanation, Anzil.
ron.fr.guam / Feb 11 2008

i just want to say that my friend says that this coconut tree can be found in the Mangatarem Pangasinan Philippines in front of a rice mill along the highway heading to the hundred islands.please let me know the real facts about this wonderfull tree.i myself think that the tree is grafted.(help please)