Aug 13, 2007

Branched coconut tree

I have seen hundreds of coconut trees (if not thousand) with one straight stem up to the nuts cache (fruit brunches) and foliage burst until recently.

The coconut (Cocos nucifera) is a branchless trunk and branched coconut tree is very rare. It is not a freak of nature that the tree branched out and branching may occur due to injury caused by insect pests.

At a private land in Kuching, Sarawak, one coconut tree produced a branch as depicted below:



More photos on branched coconut tree.

Further readings:
* Coconut freaks, Roland Bourdeix of France.
* A forked coconut tree at Fort Sindhudurg, India.

1 comments:

Dr Roland Bourdeix May 5, 2010 at 4:20 AM  

Hello from Roland Bourdeix, France, I ma ot sure this ²is a branched coconut it could be a coconut able to make small coconut palms like a banana plant make small banan plant (suckers), and this is rarest than branched coconut ! could you check it ? regards

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