©R. Bourdeix, 2021, section HCL2.
Coconuts with two or three kernels inside are indeed very rare! There are natural botanical rarities, which do not seem to originate from special coconut palms, but rather very rarely by chance. There is about half a dozen of coconuts with two kernels listed in the world, and as far as we know, only one with three kernels!
A coconut with two kernel inside was dicovered in India by the family of Dr Vijay Sadasivam, a a radiologist practicing in Salem, a small city in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, during the year 2006. The precise coconut variety remains unknown. Dr Vijay had the courtesy to send us these photos and to authorize us to publish them on this website. Then we made search and we found that the oldest is in the collection of the British museum. It is represented at the top left of the pictures.
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