Germinating Cocoanut cut lengthwise, showing the outer fibrous husk, the roots 

 making their way through it, the young palm leaves, the meat enclosed by the 

 hard shell and the huge absorbent sucker which, by its growth, fills the cavity 

 and absorbs both the milk and the meat. At the point of constriction between 

 the sucker and the stem is the "eye" through which the germ escapes from the 

 hard shell. 



