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Giant Palmyra Coconuts

LP305 · 2025-03-09T16:06:27+0000

So yesterday the Montgomery Botanic Garden had its annual luncheon and they showed us their 15 sprouted Palmyra Atoll coconuts that they collected last year. These are the largest coconut fruits known, and very oblong. The trees apparently are not distinctly bigger than the regular types. BTW, The folks at Montgomery had to beg the folks at the US Forestry Department to NOT cut those trees down - since they were thought to have been introduced for agriculture to the Atoll. MBG convinced them that these were obviously an endemic variety and were not the same as the agricultural one. See the attached pictures for a comparison with a regular sized. coconut.