Coconut (Cocos nucifera) is a plant species of the tribe of palm-arenan or Arecaceae and is the sole member in the genus Cocos. This plant is used almost all its parts by humans and therefore considered a versatile plant, especially for coastal communities. Palm also is the name for the fruit produced by this plant.
Pemerian botany
Trees with a single trunk or sometimes branched. Root fibers, thick and woody, forming tubers clustered, adaptive on the sandy beach land. Edged stem is old but if not too visible, typical monocot type with vascular spread (not concentric), woody. The wood is not good to use for the building. Leaves arranged in multiple, parallel single-pinnate, midrib petiole short on the mother, seated on stem, leaf color yellowish green. Flowers arranged in a series of compound which is protected by bractea; there are male flowers and female, married one, the female flowers are located at the base of the bouquet, while the male flowers in a distant part of the base. Fruit large, diameter 10 cm to 20 cm or even more, yellow, green, or brown; fruit is composed of fibers that berlignin mesokarp form, called coir, which protects the hard part endokarp (called shells) and water-resistant; endokarp protect seeds only protected by a membrane attached to the side in endokarp. Endospermium a liquid that contains many enzymes, and the solid phase settles on the wall when the fruits ripen endokarp; small embryos and newly enlarged when the fruit is ready to germinate (called kentos).
Coconut is naturally grows on the beach and the tree reaches a height of 30 m. He came from the Indian Ocean coast, but has now spread throughout the tropics. This plant can grow to a height of 1000 m above sea level, but will experience a slowdown in growth.
