6 years at Nong Nooch Garden, Pattaya Bring the coconut bottom girl. Strange and rare plants of the world, 6 ripe, peeled, prepared for propagation Conservation as a learning resource
Today 7 Jan ’64 at the world palm plantation Nong Nooch Pattaya Garden, Sattahip District, Chonburi Province Mr. Kampon Tan Sajja President of Nong Nooch Pattaya Garden The young coconut or sea coconuts were brought and also known as 6 ripe twin coconuts, cut into the shell for preparation to grow and reproduce. And also to conserve plants that are strange and rare in their existence
Mr. Kampon Tansajja, President of Nong Nooch Pattaya Garden, said that for the young coconut Or sea coconut And another name is coconut twin (LODOICEA MALDIVICA) is a type of palm. Is native to a small island Cecell countries In the indian ocean Is the largest seed And the heaviest in the world It is up to 12 inches long and weighs about 40 pounds. Its fruit looks like two coconuts in a row. It is the name of the twin or bottom coconut. It takes 6 years for the seeds to mature and take at least a few more. A year to germinate and take another year for the first leaf. It is considered one of the rare plants of this type of palm, according to statistics, it is up to 100 feet in height, leaf length 2, with different sexes. Female plants do not produce fruit until they are 30 years old and some may For a period of 100 years in the past, people used coconut shells to make beads, such as talismans. As a drug for many diseases It is believed to be the fruit of heaven and the fruit of immortality.
Currently, Nong Nooch Garden Pattaya has twin coconut trees. Or sea coconuts in the care of 36 trees, 4 male and 7 female trees with 25 unknown sex trees, the future tends to be more and more. The tree that is ripe today, the third is about 30 years old, ripe in the same tree, 3 children, however, the value of one coconut fruit will cost about almost a hundred thousand baht and if so, the price is about 400,000 – 500,000 baht
However, a botanist from abroad has contacted. To exchange sea coconut seeds with rare plants of that country Which has a French Guiana country who has already traded 1 child and has another child that is going to be sent to the country of Reunion Located in the Indian Ocean.
