The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for February 21, 2020

The nut doesn’t look droopy, but Momma does.

It must be a nut. Check out its name.

Drupe?

That’s why it’s called a cocodrupe.

Actually, it’s a type of bird, related to the pelican.

Botanically speaking, a coconut is a fibrous one-seeded drupe, also known as a dry drupe. However, when using loose definitions, the coconut can be all three: a fruit, a nut, and a seed. Botanists love classification.

Yeah. I googled it. Had to make sure you weren’t making it up. Ha!

In botany, a drupe (or stone fruit) is an indehiscent fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp, or skin; and mesocarp, or flesh) surrounds a single shell (the pit, stone, or pyrene) of hardened endocarp with a seed (kernel) inside. These fruits usually develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries (polypyrenous drupes are exceptions).

Just put a lime in the coconut and mix it all up!

I’ve got a lovely bunch of coconuts – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf670orHKcA

Gee… I thought it was a mammal, because it has milk inside grin

it’s a drupe