[grabby]

here is an interesting story:

It appears the lowly coconut tree has the same lifespan as the average oil producing country.

and there ia a peak coconut at 55 years.

The Coconut Palm Cocos nucifera is believed to have evolved in the Indo-Pacific Ocean region which is where its greatest genetic diversity occurs. Coconuts are seeds adapted for water-born dispersal and can remain viable after having floated in the sea for six months or more. Coconut seeds wash up on tropical island shores where they start germinating at the upper limit of wave reach, which is where the outer edge of tropical beach thicket occurs. Male and female flowers are on the same plant (monoecious) so a single coconut seed is able to start a new colony. Peak coconut production occurs when trees are about 30-60 years old but trees are still productive when over a hundred years old.

The inside of a coconut consists of endosperm which is liquid in a green nut and solid white in a ripe one. The contents of coconuts must have been eaten or drunk by people in the Indo-Pacific region from the earliest of times. Colonisation of new islands depended on the presence of coconuts to provide food and drink, and coconuts were probably carried on board boats as sources of food and drink during long journeys of discovery. It seems that islands without coconuts were planted with them. For instance, it is thought that Polynesians introduced coconuts to Hawaii in the 12th century.

Coconuts were introduced to the Atlantic region by the Portuguese. They were brought back from the Indian Ocean in 1498 by Vasco da Gama's expedition and in the 1500's, the Portuguese established coconut palms along the West African coast, on the Cape Verde archipelago and on the coastline of Brazil. Coconuts had been introduced to the West Indies by 1582. Commercial planting of coconut palms began in the mid-1800's and was linked to the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1835: high labour crops such as sugar cane and cotton were in some areas (e.g. the Seychelles) replaced by low labour coconut plantations. Palms in large commercial plantations of the Indo-Pacific region (e.g. Philippines) now outnumber by a large margin those growing wild.



poretty interesting/

The coconut palm should be our symbol for peak oil so people will see it and see a life of REST and LESS work coming up this won't make them so afraid.

what do you think?