The largest seed: the coconut(Hits: )

World Record Title: The largest seed: the coconut
World Record Creator: The coconut
World Record Holder: The coconut

World Record Field: The largest seed
World Record Rules: The largest seed
World Record Number: 20120400022
World Record Validity Period: Until the world record was broken.
World Record Witness: Carrying the Flag World Records certifier 009
World Records Source: World record database of Carrying the Flag
Awarding Certificate Date: April 25, 2012
World Record Details:

       The largest seed: the coconut. Maturity length 40-50 cm in diameter and weighing 15-30 kg. Coco de mer (Lodoicea maldivica), sea coconut, double coconut, coco fesse, or Seychelles nut. Eastern Africa, Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean as a coconut. It is also called sea coconut, double coconut tree, which is 25 - 34 m. Diameter 30 cm, straight trunk, petiole has four meters, leaves wide and 4.5 meters long and as much as 7 - 10 m. Is famous for its large seeds. The coconut tree seeds 40-50 cm long, is the world's largest seed. Seeds central ditch, like two coconuts together, this could be a "re-coconut" origin of the name, from the seed husk outside the spongy fibers, coconut fruit is almost the same shape. Strange is that the coconut fruit from seed to flowering to 13 years. Really "does it pours," 13-year bear great fruit, one had five kilograms multiple, most have a seed, but there are two to four seeds. Also the largest up to 15 kg. Seed germination is also very special, seed germination takes about three years, only a year after sprouting out of a new leaf



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