Table 1. Nomenclature and Description of Some Selected Coconut Varieties.

VARIETY CODE ORIGIN

TALL

West African WAT Ivory Coast

Rennel RIT Solomon Is.

Baybay BAY Philippines

San Ramon SNR Philippines

Taganan TAG Philippines

Tahit TAT Tahit

Markham Papua New
Valley MVT Guinea

Gazelle Papua New

Peninsula Tall GPT Guinea
Vanuatu VTT Vanuatu

Laguna LAG Philippines

Andaman
Giant AGT India

Bali BAT Indonesia

Jamaica JAM Jamaica

Bodiri BDR Sri Lanka

Agta AGA Philippines

Laccadive LCT India

Malayan MLT Malaysia

Macapuno MAC Philippines

Igoh Dukuh IGD Indonesia

DWARF

Catgan CAT Philippines

Coconino CNO Philippines

Kinabalan KIN Philippines

Pilipog PIL Philippines

Tacunan TAC Philippines

Aromatc ARO Thailand

Brazilian
Green Dward BGD Brazil
Sri Lanka
Green Dwarf SGD Sri Lanka

Malayan
Yellow Dwarf MYD Malaysia

Malayan Red
Dwarf MRD Malaysia

Niuleka NLA Fiji

Chowgat
Orange
Dwarf COD India

Mangipod MGP Philippines

Gangabonda
m GGB India

King Coconut
(Gon
Thembili) GTB Sri Lanka

Spicata SPI

Tampakan TMP Philippines

ture and Description of Some Selected Coconut Varieties.

DISTINGUISHING FEATURES

Nuts are distinctively angular and ridged at equatorial

region; high nut producer often exceeding 100 nuts per
year; homogenous;
Very precocious good
palms GCA
with with MYD
generally pear-shaped nuts;
long peduncle and good fruit composition; copra per nut is
300 grams; very homogenous and uniform; good GCA with
MYD
Copraand
perMRD.
nut is quite heavy although nuts do not really
look big; very thin husk; homogenous and produces high
number of leaves per year; bunches with short peducle
and nuts are trapped between leaf axils; stem quite robust
and firm; tolerant to FDMT.
Usually bears extra large nuts when young needing 3 to
3.5 nuts per kilo copra.
Produces nuts with good fruit corn position; 350 g copra
per nut and very homogenous; good GCA with MRD
High nut producer (116 per year); very heterogeneous and
susceptible to leaf spots

Very robust trunk; big nuts with very thick husk

Produces many but small nuts and resistant to FDMT

Produces a fairly large number of nuts; 190 g copra/nut;
hybrid cross with CAT green dwarf good
A strong and robust palm showing gigantic features.
Leaves are long, petioles are long and thick, leaflets are
long and wide. Nuts are very large and round with about
190g copra/nut. No toddy yield.
Fruits are large and round, unhusked nuts prominently flat-
bottomed with pointed posterior. Copra per nut is 200
to 300g with some having as high as 450g.
Slender palm with slightly curved stem covered with rough
leaf scars. Fruits are oblong and large, angular, green or
brown with thick husk and shell. Late germinating in
the Caribbean Islands and Atlantico Alto.
Bears 50 to 100 small nuts per bunch, copra per nut very
low at 50g needing 20 nuts for a kilo of copra. Same as
Maphrao-Phuang in Thailand.
Husk of nut is streaked, making it look around and tough.
Young nuts show black streaks
Similar to West Coast Tall (WCT) except for high oil content
(72%). Nuts are medium sized and high yielder of toddy.
Flower production and setting percentage are high.
Robust palm with round stem and large bole. The base of
the button has a rose-ring which can be seen clearly when
perianth is removed. Large spherical fruit has a thin shell,
sweet aromatic water and an average of 275g copra.
A mutant form of the Laguna variety, nuts have soft and
jelly-like meat. This character is lethal to the embryo which
needs to be grown in artificial medium. Naturally occurring
palms grown from normal nuts bear about 25%. MAC nuts
may give 100% macapuno nuts.
Nuts have very thin husk and the shape of the shell
conforms to the shape of the whole nut all the way. Shows
high biennial bearing tendency.

Nuts are medium sized, round with prominent stigmatic

tip; copra per nut is about 200 to210g; husk is thick;
peduncle and bunch rachis are long; young nuts and
petioles are green
Nuts are very small, oblong and smooth; stem quite thin
and high yielder of toddy. Copra per nut seldom
exceeds 100g. Coconino is a green dwarf.
Green dwarf, nuts are extra large, robust stem and copra
per nut sometimes exceeds 300g; homogeneous.
Nuts are green and round; female flowers, tip of roots and
base of shoots of newly germinated seedlings are pink;
copra
Anotherper nut is 100g.
green dwarf; spikelets are very short; nuts are
medium to large oblong with broad equatorial diameter
and pointed stigmatic; and unopened spathes are flat on
distal end.
Leaves are short with wide leaflets; male flowers are small
and numerous; nuts are deep green when immature;
sweet water and meat; mature nuts show a navel at the
eye when split-opened.

Very marked dwarfism; good fruit composition; nuts are

rounder but much smaller than CAT or TAC nuts
Nuts small and prominently long with protruding stigmatic
tip; strictly autogamous with numerous female flowers.
Hybrid cross with WAT called WAWA is high yielding; young
nuts and petioles of leaves are yellow; great tendency for
alternate bearing; nuts with thin husk and low meat
content; autogamous; sensitive to Phytoptora fruit rot
Young nuts and petiole of leaves are bright orange; nuts
thicker; self-pollinating; cross with RIT, TAG and BAY are
very promising; sensitive to Phytoptora fruit rot
Local green dwarf variety of Fiji with very short internodes
and very dense crown; short, rigid leaves with closely-
spaced wide leaflet and short stubby spadices.
Predominantly cross-pollinating with large fruits.
Found in Central kerala, COD is early bearing and produces
medium-sized orange colored nuts with 135g copra. This
variety retains unfertilized female at spike
A green dwarf which retains hundred of ripe nuts on the
crown due to drying of nuts on the tree. Highly self-
pollinating and shows very strict dwarfism.
An intermediate variety which breeds 96% tru-to-type
although showing a mixture of dwarf and tall
characteristics; shows considerable variability in copra per
nut rangin from 150 to 230 g with high oil content of 72%.

Most famous coconut of Sri Lanka known for its high

quality water. Shows a bole and somewhat larger trunk
than dwarfs but highly self-pollinating.
Produces unbrached inflourescences with more female
flowers than male; may occur in tall or dwarfs and when
open-pollinated, some may produce unbranched
inflourescence
Nuts while
are long and othersShape
pointed. may not.
of shell and cavity
conforms exactly to the shape of inhole nut which has a
very thin husk.