coconut palm
Noun
Meaning
tall palm tree bearing coconuts as fruits; widely planted throughout the tropics
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All about the "coconut palm" (Cocos nucifera) (2nd edition).
Examples of this are the traditional Samoan fale (houses) which are open with no walls, using blinds made of coconut palm fronds during the night or bad weather.
During Sachet's visit in 1958, the vegetation was found to consist of a sparse cover of spiny grass and low thickets, a creeping plant ( Ipomoea sp.), and stands of coconut palm.
Oxford & IBH Publishing Co. The coconut palm root system http://www.agroforestry.net/tti/Cocos-coconut.pdf consists of an abundance of thin roots that grow outward from the plant near the surface.
Since independence, only kastom owners and the government can own land; foreigners and other islanders who are not kastom owners can lease land only for the productive life of a coconut palm - 75 years.
They are made from the uncurled immature fibre of the coconut palm and are of very high quality.