Show botanists in error about coconut palm fossil nuts 1108 discovered tit ai man new zealand indicate that the coconut palm flourished flou dished there possibly t as early as years ago accord according ing to prof edward W berry oi of olms johns hopkins university there have been two opi opinions anions among botanists as to the place of origin and the method of distribution of the coconut plan Alp alphonso lion de Can dolle and other botanists have held that its ts place of origin was asia iAsin or polynesia and that nuts carried by the ocean currents and tossed ashore by the waves spread the palm from land f to land on the other hand band james cook collected and published abundant and convincing I 1 evidence of it its south I 1 american frigli and its Wab inability lilly to to establish or maintain itself in any I 1 location wi without about the assistance of man professor berry identifies the th depos deposits in ill which these fossils were discovered as pliocene or ardi re alio cene in age this would indicate that these coconuts were growing wild as there is no evidence in that remote ago age of men who might have cultivated them ile he why nilly do 10 you call rae mo a chameleon she you always change color when you hear dad coming |