About a week ago, my wife and mother came across a botanical rarity when they broke open a coconut for making coconut chutney.
There were two kernels inside the shell. One intact and the other broken.
My mother declared that she had never seen or heard of such a coconut in the fifty years that she has been using coconuts for culinary and religious purposes.
Intrigued, I Googled for ‘twin coconuts’ and came across coconut freaks!, a blog which is dedicated - as the name implies - to curious coconuts.
Since the only twin coconut that I saw there looked different from what we had at home, I emailed the author Dr. Roland Bourdeix, and sent him a couple of pictures.
He replied that he has never come across this kind of twin kernels within one coconut. He got my permission and posted the pictures that I sent him in his blog.
Tags: coconuts, odd fruits
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Quite an oddity. I am glad to see that you are finally getting famous.
Its a loculated coconut. Im working on my tag scanman!
This is my third try at commenting here.
I’m so excited that I made it this far, I really have nothing else to say.
Great botanical find on that coconut!
So…is is mono- or diamniotic?