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On a childhood trip, to visit family in sunny Hawaii, we mailed back this coconut from the family yard, by writing our rainy Portland address on the coconut in
by neilv 2y ago
On a childhood trip, to visit family in sunny Hawaii, we mailed back this coconut from the family yard, by writing our rainy Portland address on the coconut in Sharpie.
(The coconut was one of the large, oblong ones, with a smooth surface. Not the small, spherical things in the grocery store. So there was plenty of room for a legible address.)
When we got home, we planted it in a large indoor planter, hanged a lamp over it, and grew a sizable palm tree in our living room.
- nightfly 2y agoLol, I remember seeing a coconut in the student mail receiving area at PSU in 2010 or so. So I like how this has been done multiple times
- smoyer 2y agoI wonder if that's the one that's now in the HUB fish bowl (was there on Monday)
- CoffeeOnWrite 2y agoGrandparent post mentions Portland. PSU may mean Portland State rather than Penn State
- jedberg 2y agoI stayed at a timeshare in Hawaii that had a "decorate a coconut and mail it home" activity. Every hour they generated 10 coconuts for mailing basically. It's pretty common in Hawaii. In fact, I think the reason you can send them is because of lobbying from Hawaii.
- suriya-ganesh 2y agoWhat am I getting wrong? you planted a coconut but grew a palm tree ?
- hammock 2y agoYou got it right
- riknos314 2y ago> The coconut tree (Cocos nucifera) is a member of the palm tree family https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut
- racingmars 2y agoCoconut trees are in the palm tree family. All coconut trees are palm trees, but not all palm trees grow coconuts.
- umeshunni 2y agoHa, I was confused too... but in the US, the terms coconut tree, palm tree and coconut palm are used interchangeably. In India, you'd call a coconut tree a coconut tree and an arecanut tree a palm.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> I was confused too... but in the US, the terms coconut tree, palm tree and coconut palm are used interchangeably. You're still confused. Coconut tree and palm tree aren't interchangeable; to be a coconut tree, the tree has to grow coconuts. All palm trees count as "palm trees", whether they grow coconuts or not. The prototypical palm tree grows dates.
- thaumasiotes 2y ago> The coconut was one of the large, oblong ones, with a smooth surface. Not the small, spherical things in the grocery store. You say that like you think those are different things.
- veunes 2y agoThat's such a perfect blend of wholesome and chaotic
- royal__ 2y agoThe small fuzzy spherical things are just what's inside the large oblong things, once the husk has been removed. People who have never really interacted with coconuts may be surprised to learn this.
- culi 2y agoI briefly lived in Miami when I was a child and interacted with a lot of coconuts. I am surprised to learn this