Ajay - On the Road called Life!

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1. Pickster C. says:
   May 5th, 2006 at 1:12 pm

   Hmm… are those mangoes?

2. Karthik says:
   May 5th, 2006 at 3:36 pm

   Usually coconut trees do not branch out. This one has branches and also coconuts in each of the branches.

3. Ann says:
   May 5th, 2006 at 9:40 pm

   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!!

4. Ajay says:
   May 6th, 2006 at 9:44 am

   Right on that one Karthik, I really wonder where this coconut tree is actually from

5. Anzil says:
   September 22nd, 2006 at 5:53 pm

   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

6. Ajay says:
   September 22nd, 2006 at 5:59 pm

   Nice find Anzil

7. angel says:
   October 11th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

   Whew!! this is my first time to a coconut tree with many branches!!

8. Many says:
   October 21st, 2007 at 10:05 am

   Yup, the coconut tree has too many branches: a normal one would only have one long stem.

9. Jalaj says:
   October 25th, 2007 at 12:43 pm

   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.

10. William Light says:
    October 30th, 2007 at 5:02 pm

    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.

11. ron.fr.guam says:
    February 11th, 2008 at 5:47 am

    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)