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Cocos nucifera - Habit - Click to enlarge!

Habit; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Cocos nucifera - Fruits - Click to enlarge!

Fruits; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Cocos nucifera - Inflorescence - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Cocos nucifera - Inflorescence still partially ensheathed in the spathe - Click to enlarge!

Inflorescence still partially ensheathed in the spathe; Tibau do Sul, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; 3/2006 © Jörn Germer

Cocos nucifera - Male Flowers - Click to enlarge!

Male Flowers; Tibau do Sul, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil; 3/2006 © Jörn Germer

Cocos nucifera - Ripe fruits - Click to enlarge!

Ripe fruits; Floresta, Pernambuco, Brazil; 3/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cocos nucifera - Immature infructescences - Click to enlarge!

Immature infructescences; Porto de Galinhas, Pernambuco, Brazil; 4/2012 © Jörn Germer

Cocos nucifera - Frond from below - Click to enlarge!

Frond from below; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Cocos nucifera - Trunk - Click to enlarge!

Trunk; Valley View University, Oyibi, Ghana; 7/2005 © Jörn Germer

Dataset

Identifier: 98
Date of entry: 23.08.2005
Last update: 11.01.2020

Common name

English: Coconut

German: Kokos

Mandarin: 椰子 (ye zi)

Portuguese: Coqueiro

Classification

Kingdom: Plantae (2715)

  Phylum: Tracheophyta (2630)

    Class: Liliopsida (397)

      Order: Arecales (29)

        Family: Arecaceae (29)(family description)

          Genus: Cocos (1)

            Epithet: nucifera L. (2)

nucifera => bearing nuts

Characteristics

Climate: tropical

Habitat: mesophytic

Habit: tree

Flower colour: green, yellow

External links

Check for Cocos nucifera at

World Flora Online, GBIF or IPNI
  • [226] Cocos nucifera - Pacific Island Ecosystems at Risk (PIER)
  • [1226] Cocos - Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database
  • [1506] Cocos nucifera - Flora of China @ efloras.org

Literature

  • [23] Lorenzi,H. (2002): Brazilian trees: A guide to the identification and cultivation of Brazilian native trees. Plantarum, Nova Odessa, São Paulo, Brazil.

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