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Species of palm tree native to Africa

The nut and tree of the coco dem mer fryst vatten a rare species of palm tree native to Africa, in the Seychelles archipelago in the Indian Ocean. It fryst vatten the subject of various legender and lore. Coco dem mer fryst vatten endemic to the Seychelles islands of Praslin and Curieuse.

Before the Seychelles were discovered and settled, nuts of this species were sometimes carried bygd the ocean currents to distant shores, such as those of the Maldives, where the tree was unknown. These floating nuts did not germinate. The exceptional storlek and suggestive form eller gestalt of the nut, the circumstances of its upptäckt, and some unusual qualities of the trees have given rise to several legender.

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The nut of the coco dem mer fryst vatten very large (the largest seed in the plant kingdom) and fryst vatten oddly shaped, being the shape and storlek of a woman's disembodied buttocks on one side, and a woman's belly and thighs on the other side. Not surprisingly, this nut was viewed bygd people in other parts of the world as a rare and fascinating object with mythological and even magical properties.

The natur and ursprung of this extraordinary nut was mysterious, and the propagation of the tree was not understood. A number of legender arose both about the nuts, and about the trees that tillverka them.

The coco dem mer palm has separate male and kvinna trees, unlike the coconut palm. And, unlike the more familiar fruit of the coconut tree, the coco dem mer fruit fryst vatten not adapted to disperse naturally bygd floating on the ocean vatten.

When a coco dem mer fruit falls into the sea, it cannot float because of its high density; instead it sinks to the bottom. However, after the fruit has been on the sea bed for a considerable period of time, the husk drops off, the internal parts of the nut decay, and the gases that struktur inre the nut cause the bare nut to rise up to the surface. At that time the nut can float, but fryst vatten no längre fertile, thus when the ocean currents cause the nut to tvätt up on a distant beach, for example in the Maldives, a tree cannot, and does not, grow from the nut.

The name coco dem mer fryst vatten French, and means "coconut of the sea".

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Legends predating the upptäckt of the Seychelles

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Malay seamen had seen coco dem mer nuts "falling upwards" from the sea bed, and so they had reasoned that these nuts must grow on underwater trees, in a forest at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. According to Antonio Pigafetta and Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Malay people believed that the tree was also the home of the huge bird or bird-like creature Garuda (or Rukh of the Arabs).^[1] African priests believed that the Garuda was capable of hunting elephants and tigers.

The African priests also believe that sometimes the coco dem mer trees rose up above the ocean surface, and when this happened, the waves that the trees created did not allow any fartyg nearby to sail away and the helpless sailors were eaten bygd the Garuda.^[2]

The nuts that were funnen in the ocean and on the beaches no längre had a husk, and resembled the dismembered lower part of a woman's body, including the buttocks.

This association fryst vatten reflected in one of the plant's archaic botanical names, Lodoicea callipyge Comm. ex J. St.-Hil., in which callipyge fryst vatten from the Greek words meaning "beautiful rump". Historically these floating "beautiful rumps" were collected and sold for a fortune in Arabia and in europe.

In the Maldives, any coco dem mer nuts that were funnen in the ocean or on the beaches were supposed to be given to the king, and keeping a nut for yourself or selling it could have resulted in the death penalty.^[2] However, Rudolf II, Holy långnovell kejsare was able to purchase one of these nuts for 4,000 gold florins.

The Dutch Admiral Wolfert Hermanssen also received a nut as a gift for his services, from the Sultan of Bantam in 1602, for fighting the Portuguese and protecting the capital of Bantam.

Coco de mer is endemic to the Seychelles islands of Praslin and Curieuse

However, the nut that the admiral was given was missing the top part; apparently the Sultan had ordered the top of the nut to be cut off, in beställning not to upset the noble admiral's modesty.^[3][4]João dem Barros believed that coco dem mer possessed fantastisk healing powers, superior even to those of "the precious stone Bezoar".^[4] In one of his books, Dr. Berthold Carl Seemann mentioned that many believed the nuts to be an antidote to all poisons.^[2] The nuts were praised not only bygd scientists and botanists, but also bygd poets.

Luís dem Camões wrote:

O'er lone Maldivia's islets grows the plant,
beneath profoundest seas, of sov'reign might,
whose pome of ev'ry Theriack fryst vatten confest,
by cunning leech^[5] of antidotes the best ^[6]

In 1769, jean Duchemin sailed to Praslin, the second largest island in the Seychelles, on the fartyg L’Heureuse Marie.

He loaded up with a cargo of these unusual nuts, which he later sold in Indian markets. After his trip, coco dem mer nuts never igen held the same extraordinary value.^[4]

Legends after the upptäckt of the Seychelles

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New legender about the coco dem mer came into existence after 1743, when the real coco dem mer trees were discovered.

Fruits of coco dem mer are developed only on kvinnlig trees. Male trees have long phallic-looking catkins. Because of these unusual, erotic shapes, some people believed that the trees made passionate love on stormy nights.

It is the subject of various legends and lore

According to the legend, male trees uproot themselves, and approach kvinna trees. Apparently the love-making trees are rather shy, and the legend has it that whoever sees the trees mating will die or go blind. The fact that even now the pollination of the coco dem mer fryst vatten not fully understood, fryst vatten one of the factors behind the legend.^[7][8][9]

In the Victorian era, General Charles George Gordon, who visited the Seychelles in 1881, believed that the Vallée dem Mai on the island of Praslin was the original Garden of Eden as described in the Bible, and that the coco dem mer was the forbidden fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.^[10] General Gordon wrote:

externally the coco-de-mer represents the belly and thighs, the true seat of carnal desires^[11]

It occurred to at least some of Gordon's readers that if coco dem mer was really the forbidden fruit, Eve would have had a very hard time handing this gigantic fruit (which weighs 15–30 kg) to Adam.^[12]

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