So I found this coconut on the beach in Costa Rica and when I opened it THIS was inside. I think itโs the endosperm (or whatever you call the thing that develops into the tree). The coconut water itself wasnโt as sweet as usual (probably because it had sprouted), but the little sprout boi tasted sweet on one end and salty on the other. (submitted by @jewishpangolin)
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dude i have no idea how to tell you this but i have no idea what this is. i showed this to my plant anatomy professor and one of the mods at @thebashfulbotanist after class and none of us could figure out what this is. it doesnโt look like a fungus, the embryos in coconuts are tiny and donโt look like this, and the first thing a coconut sprouts is a root, not the stem, and it grows outward. there should be nothing normal like this growing in there. my plant anatomy teacher has never seen anything like this and has offered to forward this image to a palm researcher she knows to see if he has. i repeat, we have no idea what you ate but it was not a normal sprout boi. please stand by
submitter: heehee look at little coconut!!! ๐ฉ
op, their classmates, and their botany professor:
A weird prehistoric Cordyceps spore released from melting Arctic ice floated on thermals for a decade before infesting this coconut; OP has recently climbed to the top of a palm tree and is waiting to be eaten by a Pterodactyl.
