Do undersea coconut trees really grow on the ocean floor?
The coconut tree does not grow in the sea, but on land. Undersea coconut tree trunk thick and straight, up to 30 meters to 40 meters, the leaves to the four sides of the extension, wide as a fan. Leaf stem firm as ivory, above the fruit. Large and small coconuts seem round, seem flat, not flat, the shape of the rugby ball is quite similar. Coconut trees grow very slowly, generally 25 years before flowering and fruiting. A coconut after 7 years to mature, the weight of the largest up to 30 kg ~ 40 kg. The average lifespan of the cocoanut tree is more than 1,000 years, and it can bear fruit continuously for more than 800 years. The cocoanut is a rare plant unique to the Seychelles and only grows on the Seychelles islands of Prahran and Curios, with Prah being the most abundant. It is said that people on the Arabian Peninsula, Maldives, India and even Java occasionally picked up some coconut shells on the beach, they thought that the coconut shells are the fruit of a tree growing on the seabed, and drifted to the sea surface after ripening and splitting, so they also called it "sea current coconut". As a living fossil in the history of biological evolution, the undersea coconut tree is valued by botanists. The "coconut culture" has also become a unique cultural phenomenon in Seychelles. In the Seychelles National Museum, the fruit and root specimens of the coconut tree are displayed in different years; in various tourist attractions, exquisite handicrafts carved from coconut shells can be seen everywhere.