Coconut Palm

Cocos nucifera

This plant needs an image. Add an image

Growth conditions
USDA Hardiness zone	10-12 Learn more
Light requirement	Full sun
Water requirement	Moist
Soil type	Light (sandy), Medium, Heavy (clay)
Physical characteristics
Height	25.0
Cultivation details
Layer	Tall trees
Growth	Medium
Uses
Edible	True
Edible parts	Flowers, Fruit, Root, Sap, Seed, Stem
Edible uses	Oil
Warning	Weed potential
Names
Alternate name	copra, coco de agua, cocotero, palma de coco, palmera cocotera, palmera de coco, coco, cocotier, cocoyer, noix de coco, ye zi, coqueiro american, niu, coco da india, coco de bahia, coco-da-bahia, coco-da-’ndia, coqueiro, coqueiro-da-bahia, coqueiro-da-’ndia, inai‡-guau’ba, d'ong, cocos, cocospalm, klapperboom, coco blanco, coco indio, coco morado, kokosnusspalme, narikel, nariyal, narlu, thengu, yubi, kelapa, cocco, phaawz lesser, cocotier, noix de cocos, kelapa, kokospalm northern mariana, nizok, iniœg, lubi, niog, niy—g, kokospalm, ma phrao, da
Taxonomy
Family	Arecaceae
Origin and spread
Native to	Bismarck Archipelago, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Solomon Is., Tonga, Vanuatu
Introduced into	Andaman Is., Angola, Ascension, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bolivia, Borneo, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil Southeast, Cambodia, Cameroon, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Repu, Central American Pac, Chagos Archipelago, Chile North, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Easter Is., El Salvador, Fiji, Florida, Gabon, Gambia, Georgia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Hainan, Haiti, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Jawa, Kenya, Laccadive Is., Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Line Is., Madagascar, Malaya, Maldives, Marcus I., Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritius, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Mozambique Channel I, Myanmar, Nauru, New Caledonia, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Nigeria, Niue, North Carolina, Ogasawara-shoto, Phoenix Is., Puerto Rico, Réunion, Senegal, Seychelles, Society Is., South Carolina, South China Sea, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Tuvalu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., Windward Is., Zaïre
Links
Plants For A Future 🔗
Plants of the World Online 🔗

Created: 2020-11-13 18:53:37 UTC
Last updated: 2023-09-22 14:33:39 UTC by permabot

See edit history (8)

Coconut Palm

Cocos nucifera

Description

Incredible life giving waters of Mother Earth

Varieties

This plant has no varieties yet. Add a variety

In the marketplace

Coconuts 4.0$ USD

Relationships

This plant has no relationships to other plants. Add relationships