The seabed coconut is a common summer soup, nourishing Yin and moisturizing the lungs, removing dryness and clearing heat, moistening the lungs and relieving coughs and other functions.

Coconut is a palm family coconut plants, petiole stout, inflorescences axillary, fruit ovoid or subglobose, fruit cavity contains endosperm ( that is, "pulp" or seed kernel), embryo and sap (coconut water), flowering and fruiting period mainly in the fall.

I. Introduction

1. Sea coconut (Lodoicea maldivica) also known as compound coconut (double coconut). Is the Seychelles Prahran Island and the island of Curry Island of a kind of endemic palm, tree height 20 ~ 30 meters; Leaves fan-shaped, 2 meters wide, up to 7 meters long, the largest leaf area of up to 27 square meters, like an elephant's two big ears. Because the whole tree is huge, so it is also known as "the elephant in the tree".

2. The cocoanut flower is born on a huge fleshy spike, dioecious. The fruit is covered with a fleshy and fibrous skin, inside the nut-like part usually 2 petals, like two coconuts, edible but of little commercial value. The sea coconut is the largest known fruit and takes about 10 years to mature.

II. Morphological Characteristics

1. Evergreen tree. The trunk is straight, 15-30m high, with a single, neat crown. Leaves pinnatisect, 4-6m long, lobes numerous, leathery, linear-lanceolate, 65-100cm long, 3-4cm wide apex acuminate; petiole stout, more than 1m long. spathe axillary, 1.5-2m long, much branched. Male flowers are clustered in the upper part of the branches, female flowers are scattered in the lower part; male flowers have 3 sepals, scale-like, 3-4mm long, 3 petals, leathery, ovate-oblong, 1-1.5cm long; 6 stamens; female flowers have several bracteoles at the base; sepals are leathery, orbicular, ca. 2.5cm wide, petals are similar to sepals, but smaller.

2. Nut obovate or subglobose, apical slightly trigonous, 15-25cm long, endocarp bony, near the base of the 3 sprouting holes, 1 seed; endosperm has a cavity rich in sap. The fruit of the sea coconut is 35-50 cm wide across. Sea coconut outside the growth of a spongy layer of fibrous shell, peel the shell is the nut. Sea coconut of a fruit weighing up to 25 kilograms, of which the nut is also 15 kilograms, is the world's largest nut, known as the "heaviest coconut".

Three, the distribution range

Seychelles Praslin Island, Curry Island.

Four, growing environment

Sea coconut can float in the sea, but can not be grown on the beach, can not follow the sea water far away from the growth of other countries. Therefore, the sea coconut is only produced in the Seychelles.

Five, the main value

1. Sea coconut nuts within the juice thick to gelatinous, flavorful, edible and brewing wine, the pulp of the boiled soup to take, can be the treatment of prolonged coughing, and the efficacy of stopping bleeding. Coconut shell of the sea coconut by carving inlaid, can be used as decorations.

2. Sea coconut flesh white, delicious, nourishing yin and yang, but also the treatment of stroke, mental irritability and other diseases.