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Coconut Palm (Cocos)

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Coconut Palm Genus Details

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These palms are found in southern Florida, southern California, and Hawaii. Coconut has feather-like leaves that are up to 18 feet long with white - yellow flowers. Coconut trees can grow up to 100 feet tall and 2 feet in diameter. The fruit is the well-known coconut that contains the creamy white “meat” and the white coconut “milk”. Trees will start to flower when about 6 years old and are primarily wind-pollinated. Flowering occurs usually from summer to autumn.
Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera)
Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera)
Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera)
Coconut Palm (Cocos nucifera)

Coconut Palm Allergy Info

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Sufficient pollen is produced to be considered a possible cause of pollinosis, but few reported cases have been linked to this pollen. Cocos pollen was reported in Hawaii to elicit positive skin tests for 3 of 50 patients with pollinosis, even though coconut is sometimes regarded as nonallergenic.

Coconut Palm Pollen Description

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The pollen grains are trichotomocolpate (all three furrows are joined at one pole). They are heteropolar, bilateral, ovoidal to cymbiform and 1-sulcate. The sexine is either tegillate with a smooth or undulating tegillum and provided with irregularly spaced pits, granules or small excrescences.
Coconut pollen grains are large- (30 x 56-64 x 40-48 micrometers).

Species in This Genus

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Allergenicity Legend:
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Coconut Palm (Cocos) is a genus of the ARECACEAE family.
This genus includes the following allergenic species:

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Coconut Palm Genus Location

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The shaded areas on the map indicates where the genus has been observed in the United States. Click the map to see a full scale version of these allergy areas.
  - Native, observed in a county
  - Introduced, observed in a county
  - Rarely observed

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