. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Coconut 147 subulate. The fruit is large, smooth, 3-angled, often 3 dm. long, with a thick, fibrous husk enclosing the oblong bony hollow nut, which has 3 orifices near the end and is lined with the sweet white endosperm and filled witb a sweet limpid juice, much prized as a delicious drink. This palm is the most important member of its family, at least from an econom- ical standpoint, its useful applications being remark
. North American trees : being descriptions and illustrations of the trees growing independently of cultivation in North America, north of Mexico and the West Indies . Trees. Coconut 147 subulate. The fruit is large, smooth, 3-angled, often 3 dm. long, with a thick, fibrous husk enclosing the oblong bony hollow nut, which has 3 orifices near the end and is lined with the sweet white endosperm and filled witb a sweet limpid juice, much prized as a delicious drink. This palm is the most important member of its family, at least from an econom- ical standpoint, its useful applications being remarkably numerous. The ripe fruit is the popular coconut of commerce, used as a staple food in all the tropics and as a delicacy in temperate regions, to which the preserved dried flesh in the form of desiccated coconut is also sent and consumed in large quantities as a basis. Fig. iio. — Coconut, Key West, Florida. for various confections. The "milk" of the ripe fruit is very nutritious as well as deUcious, while the watery contents of the younger fruit is one of the most wholesome and delicious drinks obtainable in the tropics. The dried flesh, freed of the hard covering, is a staple commercial product under the name of copra, from which a thick bland oil is expressed. In the tropics coconut oil is an impor- tant article of food, it is also the base for fine soaps; the residuum, after the oil is expressed, is a valuable food for cattle. The fibrous husk, under the name of coir fiber, obtained from the unripe fruit, is the basis of an important industry which furnishes a very important coarse fiber, largely used in the manufacture of. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934; Shafer, John Adolph. New York : H. Holt and Co.
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