Generally grows in hot, rainy, sunny and sea breeze.
Often distributed in the tropics or subtropics, such as Hainan Province, Yunnan Province, the Maldives and other regions, native to the Malay Archipelago, China's Hainan Province planted more than 2000 years of history.
Coconut tree is a tropical crop, suitable for growth in high temperature and rainy low altitude hot and humid areas, the optimal temperature of 26 ~ 27 ℃, the average annual temperature of 24 ~ 25 ℃ or more, the temperature difference is small, all year round, frost-free, sunny, the annual rainfall of 1500 ~ 2000mm or more, and the distribution is uniform.
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Types of Coconut Trees:
1. Mini Coconut Tree
The pocket coconut (scientific name Chamaedorea Elegans) is also known as dwarf coconut, pocket palm, pocket anemone, and dwarf palm. Palm family pocket coconut genus, native to Mexico and Guatemala. Plus it is shade-tolerant, so it is very suitable for indoor small and medium-sized potted plants, decorating the living room, study, meeting rooms, hotel desks and other indoor environments, can make the indoor atmosphere and flavor of the tropical scenery.
2, bottle coconut
Bottle coconut trunk smooth, bottle-shaped, below the middle of the expansion, near the top of the narrowing into a long neck. Leaves gathered at the top of the trunk, pinnate leaves arching, rotating, twisted laterally at the base so that the pinnae leaf surface and the plane of the leaf axis into 45 °, sometimes pinnae and petiole edges slightly reddish. Sex like high temperature, humidity, sunny environment, fear of cold, salinity, slow growth, winter need to overwinter above 10 ℃.
3, West Valley Coconut
Latin name: Metroxylon sagu, alias: Shamu, sand lone, belongs to the Palm family West Valley Coconut plants, and palm, betel nut, and coconut is the same family siblings. West Valley coconut like high temperature and high humidity, sunny growing environment, not hardy, growing temperature 24-30 ℃, the soil requirements are not strict, but to loose fertile well-drained loam grow well.
4, the king coconut tree
The king coconut tree features: single trunk upright, trunk height of up to 18 meters, with a ring, the central part of the slightly hypertrophied, expanding part of the water-containing places, which is adapted to the dryland life produced.
5, potted coconut tree
Potted coconut tree can make the indoor humidity in 40-60% of the normal state, in addition to the purification of benzene, trichloroethylene, formaldehyde effect. Suitable for placing in the living room where people come and go more. Fern is one of the more primitive plants, its water vaporization is good, can increase indoor humidity, and purify formaldehyde effect.
6, high species of coconut trees
The species is currently the world's most heavily planted commercial coconut, the plant is tall and thick, trunk circumference of 90-120 cm, the tree can reach a height of more than 20 meters, the base of the trunk expanding called "Gourd head". Crown round, semicircular, Y-shaped, composed of 30-40 leaves; leaf length 5-6 meters.
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