CLASSIFICATION
- Scientific name – Cocos nucifera
- Genus – Cocos
- Family – Arecaceae
- Order – Arecales
- Class – Monocotyledonae
- Division – Angiospermae
- Kingdom – Plantae
IMPORTANT POINTS (Coconut fruit and seed)
- Belongs to Monocot.
- Type of fruit produced is Drupe fruit.
- Single seeded fruit.
- Pericarp
- Epicarp – Thin and membranous.
- Mesocarp – Fibrous (coir of the coconut).
- Endocarp – Stony (characteristic feature of Drupe fruits).
- Edible part of the fruit is Endosperm (3n).
- Seed is endospermic.
- Two types of endosperms are present i.e. free nuclear endosperm (coconut water) and cellular endosperm (white kernel).
- Fruit is hollow on maturity to float in water for seed dispersal.
