Is a coconut really a nut? Or a fruit...?!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut#Ori... a coconut is a simple dry nut known as a fibrous drupe. The husk, or mesocarp, is composed of fibres called coir and there is an inner stone, or endocarp. This hard endocarp, the outside of the coconut as sold in the shops of non-tropical countries, has three germination pores that are clearly visible on the outside surface once the husk is removed. It is through one of these that the radicle emerges when the embryo germinates. Adhering to the inside wall of the endocarp is the testa, with a thick albuminous endosperm (the coconut "meat"), the white and fleshy edible part of the seed
Answers: Yep, thus the nut part of the name coconut.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut#Ori... a coconut is a simple dry nut known as a fibrous drupe. The husk, or mesocarp, is composed of fibres called coir and there is an inner stone, or endocarp. This hard endocarp, the outside of the coconut as sold in the shops of non-tropical countries, has three germination pores that are clearly visible on the outside surface once the husk is removed. It is through one of these that the radicle emerges when the embryo germinates. Adhering to the inside wall of the endocarp is the testa, with a thick albuminous endosperm (the coconut "meat"), the white and fleshy edible part of the seed
coconut is a fruit.
A great maccarroon
It is a fruit.
its a fruity tuitty fruit!!
i love the smell
but hate the taste!!!
Though its name suggests that it is a nut, I've always regarded coconut as a fruit. When the coconut is young, it has properties like fruit, and as it matures, it becomes more nutty. But in fact it is not a nut or a fruit; it is a seed.
Coconut is the fruit of coconut palm. However, nuts are the 'fruit' of the particular tree they come from.
coconut is a fruit!!!but i think the outside of it is a nut or somethin.