Have you asked yourself how to classify a coconut? Its name suggests that it’s a nut, but do you know that it is classified as fruit (drupe)?

We get lots of benefits from coconut – from tree to fruit – nothing can be wasted. Do you enjoy drinking coconut juice? It’s very refreshing right? Are you curious about how it has evolved to become a coconut?

It started as a cute flower

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and became a cute coconut shown below

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and grew as big as this

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and enjoying it!

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Back home, we can easily harvest coconut fruit from our backyard but in in a resort, a coconut fruit could cost you as much as Php150.