When you first heard about "undersea coconut palm", you must have thought that it grows in the sea. In fact, this is not the case. Undersea coconut trees do not grow in the sea, but on land. The trunk of the submarine coconut tree is thick and straight, 30 to 40 meters high, and the leaves extend in all directions, as wide as a fan. The leaf stems are as strong as ivory and are covered with fruits. The large and small coconuts are round or flat, and their shape is quite similar to a rugby ball. Undersea coconut trees grow very slowly and usually take 25 years to bloom and bear fruit. It takes 7 years for a coconut to mature, and its maximum weight can reach 30 to 40 kilograms. The average lifespan of submarine coconut trees is more than 1,000 years, and they can bear fruit continuously for more than 800 years. Undersea coconut palm is a rare plant unique to Seychelles. It only grows on Praslin Island and Curios Island in Seychelles, especially on Praslin Island. It is said that people in the Arabian Peninsula, the Maldives, India and even Java occasionally picked up some coconut shells on the beach and thought that the coconut shells were the fruits of some kind of tree growing on the seabed. They matured and cracked before drifting to the sea. , so it is also called "sea current coconut". As a living fossil in the history of biological evolution, the submarine coconut tree has attracted the attention of botanists. "Undersea coconut culture" has also become a unique cultural phenomenon in Seychelles. In the Seychelles National Museum, specimens of fruits and roots of submarine coconut trees from different ages are displayed; at various tourist spots, exquisite handicrafts carved from submarine coconut shells can be seen everywhere.

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