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At Nearly 66 Pounds and 20 Inches Long, This Coconut Is the World's Largest Seed. How It Gets So Big Stayed a Mystery
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At Nearly 66 Pounds and 20 Inches Long, This Coconut Is the World's Largest Seed. How It Gets So Big Stayed a Mystery
Researchers studying the coco de mer palm say they have solved one of botany’s strangest puzzles: how a tree rooted in extremely poor island soil can produce the largest and heaviest seed known in the plant world. The answer is a built-in rainwater harvesting system that turns the palm’s giant leaves into funnels, sending water and nutrients straight to the base of the tree where its seedlings grow. That strategy helps explain how the Seychelles…
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