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Coconut Palms
Cocos
The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the family Arecaceae (palm family) and the only species of the genus Cocos. The term coconut can refer to the whole coconut palm or the seed, or the fruit, which, botanically, is a drupe, not a nut. The spelling cocoanut is an archaic form of the word. The term is derived from the 16th-century Portuguese and Spanish word coco meaning "head" or "skull", from the three indentations...
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
![Coconut Palms in 本草綱目圖3卷. [3]](https://images.sourcelibrary.org/gallery/69e787e64a6785cfd60ce28f/69e787e64a6785cfd60ce29d-0.jpg?v=1779927952107)
本草綱目圖3卷. [3]
Li Shizhen · 1596 · p.14
Garden of Malabar, Vol. 1
Hendrik van Rheede · 1683 · p.21
Compendium of Materia Medica
李時珍 · 1596 · p.95
Illustrated Herbal Primer
Chen Jiamo (陳嘉謨) · 1628 · p.184
Garden of Malabar, Vol. 1
Hendrik van Rheede · 1683 · p.24
The Ambonese Herbal (Herbarium Amboinense), Vol. 1
Georg Eberhard Rumphius · 1741 · p.55
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 30)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.16
In the stacks
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Every page naming Cocos in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48868.