• PALM is the common name for members of
  the Palmae, a large family of chiefly tropical
  trees, shrubs, and vines.
• Most species are treelike, characterized by
  a crown of compound leaves, called fronds,
  terminating a tall, woody, unbranched stem.
• The fruits that are covered with a tough
  fleshy, fibrous, or leathery outer layer,
  usually contain a large amount of endosperm
  in the seed (stored food).
• The palms are of limited use in the United
  States but their economic importance in the
  tropical regions can exceed that of the grasses.


• The Double coconut palm tree
  grows only on a very small island named Praslin,
  located in the Seychelles Archipielago, in the
  Indian Ocean.
• The world's largest and heaviest seed
  comes from the coco-de-mer palm. A single seed
  may be 12 inches long, nearly three feet in
  circumference and weigh 40 pounds.
• The largest seed in the plant kingdom looks
  like two coconuts fused together, giving rise to
  this fan palm's common name.



From: Botanical Record-Breakers


• The plant is tender and very slow-growing,
  especially when young. The nut takes a year to
  germinate and another year to form its first leaf
  hence, it is rarely cultivated.
• This palm can attain heights of 100 feet and
  leaf blades to 20 feet in length and 12 feet
  in diameter.
• For centuries its nuts were mistakenly thought
  to come from the Maldive Islands, an error
  preserved in its Latin name.
• Even though commonly called a "double coconut",
  it is not a coconut but grows on a fan-leaf palm
  with the two sexes on different trees.
• The "female" trees do not bear until they are
  more than 100 years old.
• The annual production is limited to a few
  thousand nuts.

TO PROTECT THE
DOUBLE COCONUT PALM TREE