Sea coconut, also called compound coconut, undersea coconut, is a kind of palm endemic to the Seychelles Praslin Island and Curry Island. The tree is more than 30 meters high, the leaves are 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 people call it "the elephant in the tree", is one of the world's tallest trees.

Sea coconut flowers are born on huge fleshy spikes, dioecious. The fruit is covered by a fleshy and fibrous skin, and the nut-like part inside is usually 2-petaled, resembling two coconuts, edible but of little commercial value, and is the largest known fruit, taking about 10 years to mature.

Sea coconut is one of the world's three rare plants, the world only in the Seychelles group of islands survived, and is known by the locals as *** holy fruit. Legend has it that when Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden of Eden for eating the forbidden fruit, they ate coconuts.

Very special is that the male flowers of the sea coconut like male genitals, the fruit like a woman's pelvis, is the world's largest nut. Therefore, the sea coconut is rumored to be "the world's most aphrodisiac fruit". The shape of its fruit will make people blush when they look at it - very similar to the female lower body, so the local people of the Seychelles has been the sea coconut as a symbol of reproduction of offspring, meaning "many children".

The cocoanut tree is also a mysterious species of tree, this tree is dioecious, one high and one low standing opposite each other, hugging or side by side growth. If one of the male and female is cut, the other will die, so the Seychellois inhabitants call them "trees of love". The nut of the sea coconut is a kind of compound coconut, as if it was born together in - two flaps of coconut, therefore, the Seychellois people will be known as the "fruit of love".