Coco De Mer - Coco of Buttocks The Largest Seed in the World - Rarity - Height: 242 mm - Width: 233 mm- 1140 g
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Specimen Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica) from Seychelles; weight 1140 g, dimensions 242 × 233 × 152 mm, known as The Largest Seed in the World.
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The 'Coco de Fesses' or 'Coco de Mer' of Seychelles is a remarkable botanical curiosity. This palm, scientifically known as Lodoicea maldivica, is one of the most extraordinary and iconic species in the world.
The legends about the Coco de Mer emerged after 1743, when the true Coco de Mer trees were discovered. During the Victorian era, General Charles George Gordon, who visited the Seychelles in 1881, believed that Vallée de Mai, on Praslin Island, was the original Garden of Eden as described in the Bible, and that the Coco de Mer was the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Even today, the Coco de Mer is called 'the fruit of Paradise'.
Seller's Story
The Mineral Art Gallery offers minerals, fossils, shells and natural elements.
Born in Italy in 2017, today she collaborates with international galleries and collectors, she is a direct importer of large minerals and naturalistic collectible elements; deals with the processing to insert them inside the living space. A section of the gallery was dedicated to the Wunderkammer, "chamber of wonders or cabinet of curiosities" in which Mirabilia elements are presented: naturalia and italiania, a union between "the present is the past".
All lots are shipped via DHL Express and Fercam couriers, with insured parcel and tracking.
Translated by Google TranslateThe 'Coco de Fesses' or 'Coco de Mer' of Seychelles is a remarkable botanical curiosity. This palm, scientifically known as Lodoicea maldivica, is one of the most extraordinary and iconic species in the world.
The legends about the Coco de Mer emerged after 1743, when the true Coco de Mer trees were discovered. During the Victorian era, General Charles George Gordon, who visited the Seychelles in 1881, believed that Vallée de Mai, on Praslin Island, was the original Garden of Eden as described in the Bible, and that the Coco de Mer was the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Even today, the Coco de Mer is called 'the fruit of Paradise'.
Seller's Story
The Mineral Art Gallery offers minerals, fossils, shells and natural elements.
Born in Italy in 2017, today she collaborates with international galleries and collectors, she is a direct importer of large minerals and naturalistic collectible elements; deals with the processing to insert them inside the living space. A section of the gallery was dedicated to the Wunderkammer, "chamber of wonders or cabinet of curiosities" in which Mirabilia elements are presented: naturalia and italiania, a union between "the present is the past".
All lots are shipped via DHL Express and Fercam couriers, with insured parcel and tracking.
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Main Mineral
Coco De Mer - Coco of Buttocks
Mineral Form
The Largest Seed in the World - Rarity
Weight
1140 g
Country of Origin
Seychelles
Height
242 mm
Width
233 mm
Depth
152 mm
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