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Coconut is a multipurpose tree for the tropics. Almost all parts can be utilized optimally. Coconut roots inspire the discovery of building a buffer technology Chicken Claw (used for example in Soekarno Hatta Airport) by Sedyatmo.
Trunk, called glugu used people as a timber with medium quality, and can be used as a billboard for the home.
The leaves are used as the roof of the house after being dried. Young coconut leaves, called a leaf, used as an ingredient in the manufacture of diamond woven or various forms of decoration is very attractive, especially by the Javanese and Balinese society in various ceremonies, and to form a stand-alone craft (the art of stringing leaf). Leaf stalk children that have been dried, is called a stick, collected into a single into a broom.
Bunches of flowers, called Virgin (actually this name is common to all flowers palms), used for people to decorate the wedding ceremony with a particular symbol. Female flowers, called bluluk (Javanese), can be eaten. Sweet liquid that comes out of the flower stalk, called a (water) juice or legend (Lang Java), can be drunk as refreshment or fermented into wine.
Coconuts are the most valuable part of the economy. Coir, which form part mesokarp coarse fibers, traded as fuel, seat fillers, woven rope, mats, and growing media for orchids. Shell or shell, which actually is part endokarp, used as fuel, replacement scoop, beverage containers, and raw materials are various forms of handicraft.
Coconut ice or ice-degan.
Endosperm of coconut fruit in the form of liquid and sediment attached to the wall in the shell ("coconut meat") is a popular source of refreshment. Young fruit flesh is white and soft and usually presented as a young coconut ice or ice-degan. This fluid contains various enzymes and has an efficacy of neutralizing toxins and the effect of refresher / sedative. Some coconut mutate so that sediment is not attached to the wall of the shell but mixed with liquid endosperm. This mutation is called (coconut) kopyor. Old fruit coconut meat is white and harden. The juice is squeezed and the liquid is called coconut milk. Meat old fruit can also be taken and dried and become valuable trade commodity, called copra. Copra is the raw material of coconut oil and its derivatives. Fluid old coconut fruit is usually not the subject of beverages and is a waste of copra industry. However, can be used again for similar materials made into jelly, called nata de coco and a refreshing drink mix ingredients.
