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'The effect was most magnificent - the tall stems, the fine crowns of foliage, and the immense fruit-clusters, being brilliantly illuminated against a dark sky, and appearing like a fairy palace supported on a hundred columns, and groined over with leafy arches.'
Alfred Russell Wallace (The Malay Archipelago, 1869),
describing coconut palms, illuminated at night by villages bonfires.
(image courtesy of 4palms) 
nucifera in Australia in PNG
Links: The Coconut Palm and the Mystery of its Place of Origin The Internet Coconut Cultivar Reference Archive (ICCRA) Sorry, but we have no pages for this genus yet.
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