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IN the coconut, Cocos nucifera Linn., the ovary is tricarpellary and each carpel contains an ovule. Usually only one ovule develops and two abort, and although there are three depressions or ‘eyes’ in the endocarp wall of the mature fruit only one of these is a functional germ pore. From this eye normally a single shoot emerges.
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WHITEHEAD, R., CHAPMAN, G. Twinning and Haploidy in Cocos nucifera Linn.. Nature 195, 1228–1229 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1951228a0
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