Basically a sweet drink with different ingredients such as black beans, sea coconut, yam, sweet potato, longan and others.

With creations like sea coconut and papaya soup, mixed mushroom tart, seaweed and pomelo salad with peanut sauce, who needs meat?

Borassus flabellifer - Asian Palmyra palm/Lontar palm/Doub palm/Sea Coconut (southern Asia and southeast Asia)

The fruit, which requires 6-7 years to mature and a further two years to germinate, is sometimes also referred to as the Sea Coconut, Love Nut, double coconut, coco fesse, or Seychelles Nut.

Coco de Mer's claims its products are made in consideration of the environment and human rights.

Pollination of the coco de mer is still a mystery.

Fruits of Coco de Mer are developed only on female trees.

The Coco de Mer tree is now a rare and protected species.

After his trip, Coco de Mer nuts never again held the same extraordinary value.

The royal symbol origin came from the world largest seed called "Coco de Mer".

In 1771 sailors set fire to the island, intending to make harvesting of the Coco de Mer nuts easier.

Formerly the Coco de Mer was known as Maldive Coconut.

The Coco de Mer palm has separate male and female trees, unlike the coconut palm.

Arabs were trading coco de mer nuts, found only in Seychelles, long before European discovery of the islands.

This is called by the French the "coco de mer" from the large numbers that are found floating in the sea in the neighborhood of the islands.

When I get home I watch the semi-erotic films on the Coco de Mer members' website.

The fact that even now the pollination of the Coco de Mer is not fully understood, is one of the factors behind the legend.

The Coco de Mer is a palm seed from the Seychelles, and the largest seed in the world.

The Coco de Mer belongs to the Coryphoidae subfamily and tribe Borasseae.

Coco de Mer's policy is to invest in the work of local talent, fair trade groups and cottage industries creating eclectic, edgy and spectacular ranges.

As well as stocking a many designer brands, Coco De Mer also sells a range of own-brand products.

When a Coco de Mer fruit falls into the sea, it cannot float because of its great weight and density; instead it sinks to the bottom.

Coco de Mer trees inhabit rainforests where there are deep, well-drained soils and open exposed slopes; although growth is reduced on such eroded soils.

The beautiful Vallée de Mai Nature Preserve is known for the unique coco de mer and vanilla orchids.

As a final attempt to unleash my inner sexual goddess I pay a visit to the Coco de Mer 'salon' and shop in Covent Garden.

And, unlike the more familiar fruit of the coconut tree, the Coco de Mer fruit is not adapted to disperse naturally by floating on the ocean water.

Particularly well-known is the Coco de Mer, a species of palm that grows only on the islands of Praslin and neighbouring Curieuse.

João de Barros believed that Coco de Mer possessed amazing healing powers, superior even to those of "the precious stone Bezoar".

It consists of a well-preserved palm forest, flagship species made up of the island endemic Coco de Mer, as well as five other endemic palms.

The largest seed in the world is the double coconut.

The largest seed is produced by the coco de mer, or "double coconut palm", Lodoicea maldivica.

The oldest nut in her collection is a 1930 double coconut from Praslin, an island in the Indian Ocean.

Of particular importance is the Double Coconut Palm first grown by employees of the Conservatory in 1959.

The Double Coconut Palm at the Conservatory died of currently unknown causes in February 2012.

Ms. Maidman stopped by a seedling of the double coconut palm, coco-de-mer (Lodoicea maldivica), from the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

The fruit, which requires 6-7 years to mature and a further two years to germinate, is sometimes also referred to as the Sea Coconut, Love Nut, double coconut, coco fesse, or Seychelles Nut.

They also include a tree grown from a cutting of the sacred bo (Ficus religiosa) under which the Buddha attained enlightenment, and a rare double coconut palm from the Seychelle Islands, although this specimen does not bear fruit.

Ms. Maidman stopped by a seedling of the double coconut palm, coco-de-mer (Lodoicea maldivica), from the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean.

Towards sustainable management of Lodoicea maldivica (Gmelin) Persoon, PhD thesis, University of Reading, UK.

The Granitic Seychelles are home to tropical moist forests, with several endemic species, including the Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica), and the Jellyfish Tree (Medusagyne oppositifolia).

The Coco de Mer (Lodoicea maldivica), the sole member of the genus Lodoicea, is a palm endemic to the islands of Praslin and Curieuse in the Seychelles.