Arecaceae
14-Jelly Coconut
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| A great delicacy in the tropics is a "jelly" coconut. The top of an unripe, green coconut is chopped off with a machete, and one then drinks the coconut "milk" and eats the endosperm, which is jelly-like at this stage of development. |