Why do coconut palm trees produce coconuts?

Question

From my understanding a lot of fruit trees produce fruits to allow other animals to eat them poop seeds and make new trees. Trees that don’t do this often have a butter or poor yeild to shy away from this. What is the coconut palm tree’s benefit in producing coconuts?

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Answer 1

Plants have many different strategies for spreading thier seeds. Animals, wind, explosions, and in this case, water. Coconuts float! This lets the plant propagate to other nearby tropical islands.