Coco de Mer

Coco de Mer (also called Sea or Maldivé Double Cocoa-nut) is the fruit of the Lodoicea Seychellarum palm. Its double kernel has long had an extraordinary value over a large area in the East. As a sovereign antidote to poison, and long known only from specimens thrown up on the Maldivé coasts, it was supposed to grow on a submarine tree, and had other fables attached to it. The tree on which it grows is peculiar to some of the Seychelles Islands, reaches a height of 100 feet, and has very large fern-like leaves.