Autumnwatch will be airing from 25th October
“WITH A SEED THAT BEARS AN uncanny resemblance, in both size and appearance, to a petite but shapely lady’s bottom, Lodoceia maldavica is certainly an attention-grabbing palm. Endemic to the Seychelles, the coco-de-mer (or koko demer in Creole) grows on only two islands in this Indian Ocean archipelago.
A species of superlatives, it produces the world’s
