RE: COCONUT PALM

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• To: "The Jeli's" <u*@cybernw.com>
• Subject: RE: COCONUT PALM
• From: J* C* R* <j*@wam.umd.edu>
• Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 17:14:19 -0400 (EDT)
• In-Reply-To: <01BCCD7D.4A7DDD60@snuffyppp24.cybernw.com>

I know how you feel about the avocado.  I tried one last spring and it
didn't even pretend to grow.
But, thats ok, because I had plenty of things that were happy to grow for
me.  :)

Julia


> 
> Wow, Lysette, you're a brave one!  Is a water coconut smaller?  Because
> coconut palms (cocos nucifera) get up to 95 feet high according to a 
> book I've got.  Is the water coconut the one with the smooth shell?
> I wonder how you would start one...I think in nature they float onto a beach
> (or wherever they happen to land) and start on top of the sand unburied.
> Maybe you could try laying it on a tub of wet sand to start it.
> 
> What a project!  I can't even start an avocado.
> 
> Cami
> utaar@cybernw.com
> Portland, OR
> 
> 

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