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Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Habit sunset and beachgoers at Ala Moana Beach Park and Magic Island, Oahu, Hawaii.
July 27, 2007
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Habit at Kahanu Gardens NTBG Kaeleku Hana, Maui, Hawaii.
November 04, 2009
Cocos nucifera Linnaeus, 1753 - coconut palms in the Bahamas.
Plants are multicellular, photosynthesizing eucaryotes. Most species occupy terrestrial environments, but they also occur in freshwater and saltwater aquatic environments. The oldest known land plants in the fossil record are Ordovician to Silurian. Land plant body fossils are known in Silurian sedimentary rocks - they are small and simple plants (e.g., Cooksonia). Fossil root traces in paleosol horizons are known in the Ordovician. During the Devonian, the first trees and forests appeared. Earth's initial forestation event occurred during the Middle to Late Paleozoic. Earth's continents have been partly to mostly covered with forests ever since the Late Devonian. Occasional mass extinction events temporarily removed much of Earth's plant ecosystems - this occurred at the Permian-Triassic boundary (251 million years ago) and the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary (65 million years ago).
The most conspicuous group of living plants is the angiosperms, the flowering plants. They first unambiguously appeared in the fossil record during the Cretaceous. They quickly dominated Earth's terrestrial ecosystems, and have dominated ever since. This domination was due to the evolutionary success of flowers, which are structures that greatly aid angiosperm reproduction.
Coconuts are only produced by the species of palm tree shown above. Coconut palm trees are widespread along and near most tropical to subtropical, Old World and New World and Oceanic coastlines. They appear to have originated in the western and southwestern Pacific. The Bahamian examples shown above are not native to the Bahamas - they were introduced to the Caribbean area by Europeans four to five centuries ago.
Coconut trees have moderately thick, mostly subcylindrical, linear to curvilinear, upright to tilted trunks. The crown consists of several, very long, highly segmented leaf blades. Leaf blade segments arise from a very prominent midrib. Coconuts are the fruit of this tree. They are large, irregularly rounded, and green to yellowish-brown to brown in color, depending on the degree of ripeness.
Classification: Plantae, Angiospermophyta, Arecales, Arecaceae/Palmae
Locality: just south of North Twin Coves Cliffs, north-central Eleuthera Island, east-central Bahamas
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Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Habit view ocean at Ala Moana Park Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.
August 02, 2012
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Leaves with Omiodes blackburni native palm moth at Waihee Beach Park, Maui, Hawaii.
January 10, 2013
Cocos is several hundred miles offshore of Costa Rica. The water is a deep, clear oceanic blue. The vegetation is nearly impenetrable.
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Leaves with native moth Omiodes blackburni feeding at Rock Quarry Beach Mokolea Pt Kilauea Pt NWR, Kauai, Hawaii.
March 19, 2013
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Habitat with Lopaka skim boarding at sunset at Honokanaia, Kahoolawe, Hawaii.
December 22, 2009
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Dead habit with Red Footed Booby on top at NW Lake, Laysan, Hawaii.
September 13, 2013
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Aerial view Kanaha Beach and Kaa Pt at Kahului, Maui, Hawaii.
October 25, 2014
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Showing coastal erosion at Papaula Pt, Maui, Hawaii.
September 01, 2004
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
View sunset and beach at Outrigger Waikiki, Oahu, Hawaii.
February 22, 2012
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Habitat and Madagascar day gecko at Maui County Fair Kahului, Maui, Hawaii.
September 30, 2012
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Habit with lovers watching sunset at Ala Moana Beach Park and Magic Island, Oahu, Hawaii.
July 27, 2007
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Roads Power Plant and Old Command Post and Laysan Albatrosses at Near Old Power Plant Sand Island, Midway Atoll, Hawaii.
March 30, 2015
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Habit view sunset at Honokanaia, Kahoolawe, Hawaii.
December 16, 2014
Cocos nucifera (Coconut palm, niu)
Habitat pool and buildings at night at Ala Moana Hotel, Oahu, Hawaii.
July 28, 2009