A tree crop, Cocos nucifera, the coconut palm, whose domestication history is debated: genetic evidence points to two largely separate centers of cultivation, one in the Pacific basin and Southeast Asia and another around the Indian Ocean rim and South Asia, and the species also dispersed naturally across tropical shorelines by floating in seawater before humans spread it further through cultivation. Nearly every part of the coconut palm is used: the fruit for its water, flesh and oil, the husk fiber (coir) for rope and matting, the trunk for timber, and the leaves for thatch, making it one of the most economically versatile tree crops of the tropics. Indonesia, the Philippines and India are the largest modern producers.
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Scientific Name Domestication RegionSoutheast Asia (Pacific coconuts, by Austronesians) 3 Domesticated When (Circa)c. 3000 to 1500 BCE (Pacific coconuts) 3 Era
Era (category) Coconut
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1. Coconut (Wikipedia)
- lead: the large hard fruit of the coconut palm tree
- lead: inner flesh forms a regular part of the diets of many people
- lead: the coconut tree provides food, fuel, cosmetics, folk medicine
- lead: hard shells, fibrous husks and leaves used to make products for furnishing
- lead: trees can grow up to 30 meters tall and yield fruit annually
- lead: domesticated by Austronesian peoples in Island Southeast Asia, spread during the Neolithic
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Linguistic, archaeological, and genetic evidence all points to domestication of Pacific coconuts by Austronesians in Southeast Asia during the Austronesian expansion (c. 3000 to 1500 BCE).
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Taxonomy
The coconut (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm family
Human dispersal
Linguistic, archaeological, and genetic evidence all points to domestication of Pacific coconuts by Austronesians in Southeast Asia during the Austronesian expansion (c. 3000 to 1500 BCE).
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A tree crop, Cocos nucifera, the coconut palm, whose domestication history is debated: genetic evidence points to two largely separate centers of cultivation, one in the Pacific basin and Southeast Asia and another around the Indian Ocean rim and South Asia, and the species also dispersed naturally across tropical shorelines by floating in seawater before humans spread it further through cultivation.
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Originally native to the Southeast Asia, New Guinea, and the Southwestern Pacific, they are ubiquitous in coastal tropical regions.
View the SourceBurrowing Nematode (Wikipedia)
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It is an especially important pest of bananas, and it can be found on coconut, avocado, coffee, sugarcane, other grasses, and ornamentals.
Reniform Nematode (Wikipedia)
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It has a wide host range that includes fruit trees, lentil, cotton, pigeon pea, tea, tobacco, soybean, pineapple, banana, okra, coconut, cabbage, sweet potato, alfalfa, corn, asparagus, palm, cucumber, tomato, squash, cassava, radish, eggplant, guava, melon, chickpea, and ginger.
Cadang-cadang (Wikipedia)
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Cadang-cadang is a disease caused by Coconut cadang-cadang viroid (CCCVd, Cocadviroid cadangi), a lethal viroid of several palms including coconut (Cocos nucifera), African oil palm (Elaeis guineensis), anahaw (Saribus rotundifolius), and buri (Corypha utan).
Bursaphelenchus cocophilus (Wikipedia)
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The red ring disease of coconuts and African oil palms is caused by the nematode Bursaphelenchus cocophilus.
Pestalotiopsis palmarum (Wikipedia)
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Pestalotiopsis palmarum is the causative agent of a fungal disease of bananas, coconut and Date palms .
Bipolaris incurvata (Wikipedia)
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Bipolaris incurvata is a plant pathogen that causes blight and leaf spots in coconut trees.
Corticium penicillatum (Wikipedia)
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It is a corticioid fungus and a plant pathogen, the causal agent of coconut thread blight, a leaf disease of coconut palms.
Marasmiellus cocophilus (Wikipedia)
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The fungus causes lethal bole rot of coconut.
Phytophthora palmivora (Wikipedia)
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Phytophthora palmivora is an oomycete that causes bud-rot of palms, fruit rot or kole-roga of coconut and areca nut.
Cephaleuros virescens (Wikipedia)
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is an algal plant pathogen that infects tea, coffee and coconut plants
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