COCONUT TREE

Coconut is a fruit of the coconut palm tree, its trunk is one two feet in diameter. It has no branches baut carries a crown leaves of about 70 to 100 feet above the ground, its lives is like a feather and with many segments. Lives are ussualy 10 to 20 feet long. The coconut fruit hang at the bases of the leaves in clusters of about 10 to 15. Saveal clusters ripen during a year. A tree many produce 200 coconuts a year, but the average is just around 40. Coconut tree grows wild on tropical seacoasts, and cultivated in moist, frost ree climates, itis aboundant in southeast asian countries.

When coconut rippen, they fall from the tree and are frequently washed out to the sea. Some many drift for months before there are cast up by hte waves on to the shore. After to 4 to 5 months, the seed sprouts anda new tree begins to grow. In about 6 years the tree will begin to bear coconut and it will reach its full bearing time at 20 years. Coconut tree is very strong it can resist strong thypoons, coconut tree does not also need a lot maintenance unike the mango tree which needs a lot care and fertilizers.

The coconut has a smooth greenish covering. Within the outer shell is a fibrous hask one to two inches. The inner shell is brown an hard. When the coconut is still young it contains a large ammount of fluid or juice, during this stage the coconut meat is ideal to be eaten alone can be us for salad or can be added with milk a nutricional srink. When the coconut mature most fluid is absorbed and its fleash tickens and hardens.