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Interesting article about Lodoicea Maldivica - Double Coconut palm

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January 23, 20179 yr

Check out this interesting article about Lodoicea Maldivica, they still don't know why the seeds are so large and how the female flowers get pollinated...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26930-the-secret-of-the-worlds-largest-seed-revealed/

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January 23, 20179 yr

Useful article

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January 23, 20179 yr

Thanks for posting !

San Francisco, California

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January 24, 20179 yr

Very cool. Thanks.

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January 24, 20179 yr

Fascinating reading, thank you.

Kim Cyr

Between the beach and the bays, Point Loma, San Diego, California USA
and on a 300 year-old lava flow, Pahoa, Hawaii, 1/4 mile from the 2018 flow
All characters in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

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January 24, 20179 yr

I often wondered what possible advantage enormous seeds might have. Now there's a possible answer.

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