{"id":3506,"date":"2009-07-28T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-28T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nybg.org\/wordpress\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2009-07-23T16:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-23T20:21:00","slug":"edible-plant-spotlight-coconut-palm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2009\/07\/exhibit-news\/edible-plant-spotlight-coconut-palm\/","title":{"rendered":"Edible Plant Spotlight: Coconut Palm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"coconut palm by NYBG, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/newyorkbotanicalgarden\/3750246348\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2551\/3750246348_190cc5f13b.jpg\" alt=\"coconut palm\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe <strong>coconut palm<\/strong> (<em>Cocos nucifera<\/em>) is often called the \u201ctree of life\u201d in honor of its varied uses. The hairy, brown-husked seeds contain a white meat that is a popular ingredient in sweet and savory recipes. It is grated and blended with water to create coconut milk and pressed to produce coconut oil\u2014both useful cooking ingredients. The coconut water inside the seed is also a refreshing and highly nutritious drink. See this plant and more on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/wordpress\/?p=3454\" target=\"_blank\">Edible Plant Tour <\/a>during <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/edible_garden\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Edible Garden<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera) is often called the \u201ctree of life\u201d in honor of its varied uses. The hairy, brown-husked seeds contain a white meat that is a popular ingredient in sweet and savory recipes. It is grated and blended with water to create coconut milk and pressed to produce coconut oil\u2014both useful cooking&#8230;  <a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/2009\/07\/exhibit-news\/edible-plant-spotlight-coconut-palm\/\" title=\"ReadEdible Plant Spotlight: Coconut Palm\"><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><button class=\"btn btn-info\">Read more <i class=\"fa fa-angle-double-right\"><\/i><\/button><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":183,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3,241],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ph0lU-Uy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/183"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3541,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions\/3541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/plant-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}