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unusual facts about Cocos


Walmor Oliveira de Azevedo

Born in Cocos, Oliveira de Azevedo was ordained to the priesthood on September 9, 1977, serving in Juiz de Fora.


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Heart of palm

Heart of palm, also called palm heart, chonta, palm cabbage or swamp cabbage, is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees (notably the coconut (Cocos nucifera), Palmito Juçara (Euterpe edulis), Açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea), sabal (Sabal spp.) and pejibaye (Bactris gasipaes) palms).

Jacob Le Maire

Between April 21 and 24, 1616, they were the first Westerners to visit the (Northern) Tonga islands: "Cocos Island" (Tafahi), "Traitors Island" (Niuatoputapu), and "Island of Good Hope" (Niuafo'ou).

Kyung-ok-ko

Poria Cocos: Poria cocos cleans and comforts inside of stomach.

Malaysian Australian

In the case of Cocos Islands, the Malays were first brought as slaves under Alexander Hare in 1826, but were then employed as coconut harvesters for copra.

Matthaei Botanical Gardens

Tropical house - Collections include Ananas comosus, Annona muricata, bromeliads, Caryota mitis, Cocos nucifera, Coffea arabica, cycads (including a Dioon spinulosum given by Smith College in the 1920s), Heliconia vellerigera, Kigelia pinnata, Musa, orchids, Oryza sativa, Piper nigrum, Rhizophora mangle, and Theobroma cacao.

Mount Tarcoola, Western Australia

A small Cocos Malay population was identified in the suburb, with 2.9% practising Islam and 2.2% speaking Malay at home.

Nu'ulopa

It is also a small forested rocky outcrop with coconut palms (Cocos nucifera) and a conservation area for flying foxes.

Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk

The name includes an old spelling of Coconut, Cocos nucifera, which was used in the popular Marx Brothers movie The Cocoanuts of 1929.

Tuckahoe

Wolfiporia extensa, also called Poria cocos, Tuckahoe, or Indian Bread; the sclerotium of a fungus used as food by Native Americans and by the Chinese as a medicinal


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