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  2.  How the World's Most Versatile Fruit Evolved
    How the World's Most Versatile Fruit Evolved
    The coconut is more than just a delicious and nutritious fruit. It is also a symbol of tropical paradise, a source of livelihood for millions of people, and a product of complex evolutionary history.
    Description

    Cocos nucifera is a large palm, growing up to 30 metres (100 feet) tall, with pinnate leaves 4–6 m (13–20 ft) long, and pinnae 60–90 centimetres (2–3 ft) long; old leaves break away cleanly, leaving the trunk smooth. O… See more

    Taxonomy

    The evolutionary history and fossil distribution of Cocos nucifera and other members of the tribe Cocoseae is more ambiguous than modern-day dispersal and distribution, with its ultimate origin and pre-human dispersal still unclear… See more

    Distribution and habitat

    Coconuts have a nearly cosmopolitan distribution due to human cultivation and dispersal. However, their original distribution was in the Central Indo-Pacific, in the regions of Maritime Southeast Asia and … See more

    Ecology

    Coconuts are susceptible to the phytoplasma disease, lethal yellowing. One recently selected cultivar, the 'Maypan', has been bred for resistance to this disease. Yellowing diseases affect plantations in Africa, Indi… See more

     
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