A Rare Tree.
The coca de mer, to see and sketch which a female correspondent undertook her adventurous journey to the Seychelles Islands where alone it is found, is a beatiful palm from 60 to 100 feet high. Its trunk is about a foot m diameter all the way up to th/> very top, where it is crownod with a tuft of huge leaves, some of them as much as 20 feet long. The male and female flowers are produced on different trees. The resulting nut is about a foot long, of irregular shape, and till the discovery m 1743 of the only spoi m the world where these palms grow was believed to be a marine product. .The Malay sailors usod to affirm that it grew under water m placid bays, but if they div^ed for it it instantly disappeared. The nuts were liigjriy prized when found floating on the Indian Ocean, and some kings are said to have been so greedy to obtain them as to give a loaded ship for a single specimen.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 134, 6 May 1884, Page 2
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176A Rare Tree. Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 134, 6 May 1884, Page 2
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