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| | Arecaceae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The type member of this family is the areca palm, the fruit of which is chewed with the betel leaf and often confused with it. | | | Palms first appear in the fossil record around 70-80 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period, making them one of the older families of flowering plants. | | | Arecaceae (also known as Palmae), the Palm Family, is a family of flowering plants, belonging to the monocot order, Arecales. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arecaceae
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| | Palm & Coconut Sugar |
| | Palm sugar and coconut sugars (nahm dtahn bpeep/buk and nahm dtahn maprao): Although the names are used interchangeably, palm sugar and coconut sugar are not the same. | | | Attracted by the fragrance and sweetness of the nectar, honey bees swarm around the woks, dozens giving in to a sweet death in the hot syrup. | | | Palm sugar may also be labeled as coconut sugar and vice versa. |
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http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/ingredients/palmsug.html
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| | Coconut Palms in Belize - Planting & Care of the Coconut Palm |
| | When the palm is mature I won't water it anymore and I will spread the fertilizer at the same distance from the trunk as the longest frond extends from the trunk. | | | Coconut palms are in the grass family and are very sensitive to harsh chemicals. | | | The mature fronds are at the 9 o'clock and 3 o'clock position which produce the most needed sugars for the plant. |
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http://www.ambergriscaye.com/cocopalms/planting.html
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| | Ethnobotancal Leaflets |
| | Palms have many botanical characteristics such as woody trunk, in many species, perennial growth, leaves which are folded like a fan and the production of a single seed leaf which, along with grasses, lilies and other families classifies them as monocotyledons. | | | The coconut palm was unquestionable spread by Austronesians through the Pacific, perhaps eventually to the Pacific coast of Central America, and westward to India and East Africa. | | | Consequently, every coconut palm in the world is taxonomically the same species, which probably makes it most abundant single food tree in existence. |
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http://www.siu.edu/~ebl/leaflets/coconut.htm
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| | Vegetarians in Paradise/Coconut History/Coconut Nutrition/Coconut Folklore/CoconutRecipe |
| | Coconuts require the hot, humid weather of the tropical regions that stretch 25 degrees north to 25 degrees south of the equator all around the globe. | | | Coconuts grow from the center of the fronds, close to the trunk. | | | Unique to the coconut palm, each tree blooms thirteen times a year and produces all stages of growth at the same time, from tiny new green nuts to fully ripened brown nuts that are ready to fall from the tree. |
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| | coconut palm: Definition and Much More From Answers.com |
| | The flowers of the coconut palm are polygamomonoecious, with both male and female flowers in the same infloresence. | | | The cavity is filled with "coconut water" containing sugars, fibre, proteins, anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals, which provide excellent isotonic electrolyte balance, and an exceptional nutritional food source, which is why it is used as a refreshing drink throughout the humid tropics. | | | Researchers report that coconut water is high in potassium, chloride, and calcium, and might be indicated in situations calling for increases in these electrolytes. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/coconut-1
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| | Tropical Palms - Historical role of palms in human culture |
| | Coconut is grown under plantation conditions but remains an important tree crop of the small farmer who often cultivates the palm in combination with other annual and perennial crops, and with livestock raising. | | | This palm appears to have been domesticated for its hard dried endosperm which contains the alkaloid arecoline and is chewed as a narcotic. | | | The palm domestication process is driven by an economic interest in one key product, as is generally the case in plant domestication. |
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http://www.fao.org/docrep/X0451E/X0451e04.htm
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| | coconut palm -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - The online encyclopedia you can trust! |
| | Palms are tall and stately in appearance and are often planted as ornamentals. | | | The typical 18-metre (60-foot) mature peach palm bears up to five clusters of 50 to 80 orange-yellow fruits, each of which is 5–7.5 cm (2–3 inches) in diameter. | | | The kernels of its hard-shelled nuts are the source of babassu oil, similar in properties and uses to coconut oil and used increasingly as a substitute for it. |
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http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9024606?tocId=9024606
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| | Coconut Palm Industry in Kuala Selangor |
| | Coconut is harvested when they are ripped i.e. | | | Coconut thrives on sanding soil and windy conditions. | | | Land, once reserved and suitable for coconut palms are turned into farming industries. |
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| | Multipurpose Palms CHAPTER 3 |
| | However, at the level of the farm the uses of coconut for non-food purposes are many, and for the small land holder, these uses may be as important as the food uses. | | | With time the coconut plantation produces large quantities of residues, the old leaves and the unused coir, materials that rot slowly and are useful in reducing erosion, and in filling gullies. | | | While the plants most related to the coconut are found in Northwest South America, before Columbus the coconut was known on only a small part of the Pacific coast and not at all on the Atlantic coast of South or Central America. |
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http://agroforestry.net/pubs/palmbk/Chapter3.html
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| | The Coconut Palm in Florida |
| | Coconut palms grow well in a wide range of soil types, provided they are well-drained, and a wide pH range, from 5.0 to 8.0. | | | Young palms, about 6 months old, can be transplanted directly into the field or be grown in pots in the nursery for a few more years. | | | They differ in their petiole and fruit color, straightness (or crookedness) of the trunk, leaflet and leaf width, growth rates, presence or absence of a swollen trunk base or bole, adaptibility to Florida's soil conditions, and resistance to lethal yellowing disease. |
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http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/MG043
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| | Buy Ship or Send a Florida Fresh Coconut |
| | Coconut (Maprao): The coconut palm tree is one of the most useful of all trees in the tropics, providing not only food but raw materials for making all sorts of useful furnishings, household supplies and even recreational equipment. | | | Copra, the dried meat of matured coconuts, is one of Thailand's major exports, providing an important source of food and raw material to other parts of Asia and the world. | | | The fibrous husks are nature's protective cushion and are integral parts of coconuts, but because of their bulkiness, they usually have been pulled off and discarded. |
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http://www.wrappedandreadygifts.com/BuySendACoconut.html
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| | Coconut Palm, Cocos nucifera |
| | Fertilize 4x to 6x a year with top quality palm food and watch your coconut grow to its maximum beauty. | | | After that, plant it out or in another larger pot or directly into the soil. | | | Sprouting palms and growing palms from seed, use fresh seeds and follow the advice for coconuts below |
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| | Coconut Palm |
| | The fruits, or coconuts, yield several food products at different stages of development, and the leaves are used for thatch or are woven into baskets, mats and clothing. | | | Copra (the dried "meat" of the seed), from which oil is extracted, is a significant cash crop throughout the tropics. | | | Pests or diseases: Certain varieties are susceptible to lethal yellowing, potassium deficiency, bud rot, gandomera, Palm Aphid and Coconut Mite. |
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http://www.floridagardener.com/palms/coconutpalm.htm
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| | Coconut |
| | Coconut palms are an excellent source of food for native peoples in the tropics. | | | The long trunk of the tree, which is not formed in the same manner as that of a dicotyledon, is used for building supports, and the stem can be tapped near the top of the plant to yield a sugar, which can be fermented into an alcoholic beverage. | | | It turned out that cytokinin is the crucial ingredient to get single cells to develop into embryos. |
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http://www.botgard.ucla.edu/html/botanytextbooks/economicbotany/Cocos
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| | Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Information Sheets: Coconut Palms |
| | Seedlings with the seed attached should not be transplanted until the connection with the seed has shrivelled. | | | The male flowers mature and wither before the female flowers become receptive (a condition known as protandry) so that flowers in the same inflorescence cannot pollinate one another. | | | Fresh seeds should be placed on damp peat with the broadest surface downwards at a temperature of 24-27°C. The seed germinates slowly, taking up to 4 months before the shoot appears. |
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http://www.rbgkew.org.uk/ksheets/coconut.html
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| | Coconut: Blogging the Tropical World |
| | The double coconut, coco-de-mer or Lodoicea maldivica, with the largest seeds in the plant kingdom, was just missed by trees falling on both sides of it. | | | Targeting between US$33-35 million from coconut product exports, Ben Tre is pushing for the early operation of a 2,000-tonne coir fibre plant, a 2,000-tonne desiccated copra plant and a 1,500 tonne charcoal plant. | | | Reports of Niue's demise are greatly exaggerated, as are the reports of its continued survival, it seems. |
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| | The Coconut Palm: Symbolic Tree of the Tropics! Read about the history and growing habits of this most familiar ... |
| | It is not suggested that the early coconuts were present in large numbers or spread over extensive lengths of coastline and were certainly not found naturally anywhere in the hinterland. | | | Subsequently, Harries (1981) showed that the common tall varieties in East Africa are late germinating, with wild type characteristics similar to the coconuts on the Indian subcontinent, while the common tall varieties in peninsular Malaysia are early germinating, domesticated types. | | | This raises the possibility that the wild type coconut may have existed on the fringes of the Pacific and Indian oceans since the earliest time. |
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http://www.thewisegardener.com/Articles/Palm_0f_The_Month/coconut.htm
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| | Coconut palm trees: the tree of life in the pacific |
| | Hawaii is on the rim of the "coconut belt" and although plentiful here, coconuts are not a commercial crop because better quantities and qualities can be grown elsewhere. | | | 90% of the world's coconut production for export sources from the Asia-Pacific region, though coconut products are an increasing source of revenues for many other developing areas. | | | The fruit should feel heavy, heavier than it looks, and when shaken, you should hear the water sloshing around inside. |
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http://www.hawaiischoolreports.com/food/coconut.htm
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| | The Coconut Palm: Cocos nucifera |
| | Uses - The coconut palm is perhaps the widest-grown palm in the world, coconuts feature as one of the main sources of income for producing countries, in that a large number of different products utilised and appreciated in the western countries as well are made out of them. | | | Its fruit, as big as a man’s head and 1-2 kg in weight, is a drupe with a thin, smooth, grey-brownish epicarp, a fibrous, 4-8 cm thick, mesocarp and a woody endocarp; as it is rather light, it can be carried long distances by water while keeping its germinability for a long time. | | | However, other parts of this plant are used too, notably its leaves to make baskets, roofing thatch etc., apical buds of adult plants are an excellent palm-cabbage, an alcoholic drink known as Toddy or palm wine is extracted from its sugar sap, tapped from the inflorescences by means of apposite cuttings. |
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http://www.dipbot.unict.it/Palms/Descr01.html
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| | Preserved Coconut Palm Trees from Hillcrest Mill |
| | The Silk Palm features silk leaves with a natural single trunk in a clay pot. | | | A curved double trunk or single straight trunk is also available. | | | This Silk Palm features silk leaves with a natural double trunk in a clay pot. |
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http://www.hillcrestmill.com/trees_palms2.htm
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| | coconut_palm |
| | [n] tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics. | | | Link to this dictionary definition of coconut palm |
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| | Coconut: Blogging the Tropical World: Hunting The Coconut Palm Killer in Panama |
| | In 1994, an outbreak of Porroca--a disease that spread west from Colombia--began killing the coconut palms on which the Kuna depend. | | | A husband-and-wife team of researchers spend years in Panama trying to stop the spread of Porroca, a disease that kills coconut palm trees. | | | Since the 1600s, Kuna Yala has been home to the Kuna people, an indigenous group whose lifestyle and livelihood depends on the health and bounty of the native coconut palms. |
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http://www.coconut.com/blog/archives/000015.html
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| | The Double coconut palm tree |
| | The largest seed in the plant kingdom looks | | | The palms are of limited use in the United | | | it is not a coconut but grows on a fan-leaf palm |
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| | Lighted palm tree, lighted coconut palm tree, lighted fireworks trees |
| | Rugged PVC construction over a steel frame, stabilized by a 14" steel base plate affixed to a hard outdoor surface. | | | Be one of the first in your area to own one of these unique lighted palm trees. | | | With size and color options, this new item is only limited by the imagination of the owner. |
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| | Coconut Fern - Palm Software Application Store |
| | The object of the game is to get four of your tokens in a row before your opponent: horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. | | | Coconut Fern is the most fully-featured Connect Four® clone for the Palm OS, and is also the most competitive! | | | Great no-frills free version of Connect 4 that I run on my Treo 600 smartphone. |
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| | Cocos nucifera |
| | Illustrations from Kohler's Medicinal Plants, courtesy and copyright © 1998, Missouri Botanical Garden. | | | Click here to see some photos of coconut palms. | | | 1998-2005, Palm and Cycad Societies of Florida, Inc. |
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| | Coconut Palm Inn - A Beachfront Hideway |
| | Nestled in a coconut grove on a white, sandy "sunning" beach directly on the Florida Bay, the Coconut Palm Inn is one of the Key's most unique beachfront hideaways. | | | Our staff is dedicated to showing you all that makes the Florida Keys one of the most spectacular outdoor destinations in the world. | | | The Coconut Palm Inn is centrally located within the heart of the best sport fishing, diving and snorkeling in the country. |
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http://www.coconutpalminn.com
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| | MSN Encarta - Dictionary - coconut palm |
| | tropical palm tree: a tall tropical palm tree with large fruits coconuts. | | | Click here to search all of MSN Encarta | | | Search for "coconut palm" in all of MSN Encarta |
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| | Coconut Palm Elementary School |
| | Coconut Palm Elementary is a K-5 public school in Broward County, Florida. | | | Click Here to download, then select "Macromedia Flash Player") |
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