When a coconut is ripe, at some point it falls from its palm. And because they like to be on the beach, many coconuts roll into the sea. Nature must have planned it. It has given all coconuts everything they need to go on a long journey – even their own supply of fresh juice containing many nutrients: the coconut juice in the coconut. And when the nut arrives on land again, it is able to grow straight away.

Coconuts can germinate even after 100 days in the salty sea …