Coco de Mer

The Forbidden Fruit

Long ago, voyagers in the Indian Ocean chanced upon a large, floating object of mysterious origin. Its suggestive feminine shape launched many a sailor's fantasy. Some believed this was the forbidden fruit that tempted Adam, and somewhere nearby must be the original Garden of Eden...

Eventually, the exotic seed was discovered on a gigantic female palm tree known as the "Coco De Mer." Like Eve, she too must have an Adam, the male Coco De Mer palm with its giant pollinating appendage.

This lost world is hidden in a cluster of islands called the "Seychelles." The Seychelles lie in the middle of the Indian Ocean between Africa and India. These remote islands conceal an astonishing array of life and are a refuge for strange creatures found nowhere else on Earth.

The virgin forest is a living Jurassic Park of palms. The trees are direct descendants from an age when the dinosaurs roamed and all life grew much bigger. In this age-old forest one palm tree reigns supreme.

The extraordinary Coco De Mer holds the record for the largest leaf, and the biggest seed, (not forgetting fruit, and nut), in the entire plant kingdom. They were so rare, early sailors thought they came from a tree growing beneath the ocean. The mysterious nuts came to be called "Coco De Mer", or as translated from French "Coconut Of  The Sea".

The male Coco De Mer tree boasts an enormous catkin, which can grow to more than five feet in length. This male reproductive organ is so large it supports its own mini-ecosystem. The ripe pollen-laden flowers are a magnet for visitors of all kinds.

No one knows whether it is a creature or the wind that carries pollen to the female Coco De Mer. An old Seychelles legend says the trees consummate their union by swaying together on stormy nights. However it occurs, ...it is the start of something big!
 

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The female Coco De Mer trees do not bear until they are more than 100 years old. Once it is pollinated, it takes seven years for the nuts to mature. A single nut can weigh in at 40 pounds. (World Record holder is over 36 kilos!).
 

 

Too large to be carried away by a bird and too heavy to float, a fertile Coco De Mer seed never left this Eden until humans came. The trees can grow up to a hundred feet tall in the sheltered quiet of this ancient valley.

 

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Stripping away the outer husk reveals the curiously erotic-shaped seed inside. The double lobes of the coconut account for its suggestive appearance. It is simply the biggest and most salacious seed in all of the world, ...and few can look at it without blushing! That's because the 45-pound whopper looks exactly like, well, there is no delicate way to put it....
 

The Coco de Mer is the most voluptuous and sexy thing created by Mother Nature.

 

You almost feel like finding a little fig leaf to cover it!!!

 

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