Show Hawaii to Try Growing Giant Coconut Trees Honolulu Seeds Seeds weighing from 16 to 32 pounds are being germinated d preparatory to experimental cultivation cultivation cultivation tion of double coconut trees In Ha Ila- la In reality they are not coconut trees at nt all nil but a n species of fan palm pe pe- peculiar peculiar pe- pe peculiar culiar to the Seychelles lIes Islands In the Indian ocean scientifically known as I The seeds resemble re emble huge coconuts and were long Ion known as coco do d dw dower w r or sea sen coconuts because before the tree was discovered OO years ago agog sailors found the seeds floating In the tho ocean The tree which reaches a height of or CO GO to feet lives from rom to 1000 1000 years Available A v descriptions of the tha seed Indicate they are similar to the tha coconut with a soft jellylIke like meat Uses of the tree are similar to those of the coconut palm the palm the shells for or bowls and the leaves for baskets and tropical houses The seed Is still sUll used for medicinal 1 purposes In some parts of the Orient |