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coco-de-mer, double coconut palm, sea coconut palm
An endangered, very slow-growing, large, single stemmed, evergreen palm tree, known as 'Coco de Mer', endemic to the Seychelles, which can reach a height of 25m in favourable conditions. Very long, stiff, fan-like, slightly folded, narrow green leaves are designed to capture and channel water and nutrients. It produces enormous, heavy brown seeds (shaped like a bottom) which take up to six or seven years to ripen, another two or three to germinate once they fall from the tree and another 25 years before they produce seed again. Specimens in the UK can be found in Botanical gardens such as The Eden Project in Cornwall