Cocos nucifera | Coconut Palm 3.5ltr cashew widely spaced shiny leaflets making

widely spaced shiny leaflets making up the perfectly round crown

the genus name comes from the Greek words chamai meaning on the ground and dorea meaning a gift as the fruits are easily gathered from the ground

Leaflets are closely spaced and droop downwards

or they can be hand-picked

but is more adaptive to different light levels

Cocos nucifera | Coconut Palm 3.5ltr cashew widely spaced shiny leaflets makingYes, these are real coconut palms and you won't find them for sale anywhere else in NZ. We grow them right here in Auckland. Surely the most famous of all palms, coconuts are a true icon of the tropics. The coconut palm hardly needs an introduction but is believed to originate from the Malesia region but of course is now cultivated everywhere in the tropics as a hugely significant agricultural crop but also as the ultimate architectural landscape