I am asking this question to the coconut sitting on my kitchen shelf ready to be pounded. The name sounds very suggestive and you would think "She herslef is a nut". With the name ending with a nut what else can it be but a nut case.

No, it is not a nut, not even a fruit... It is a seed. The journey begins as a fruit and in its older years it starts to act nutty... As if that is a surprise. Old age nutty get it??            Some of the uses of coconut may even drive you nuts..

Read on to make yourslef more aware...

Halved shells are used to make horse's hoofbeats sounds in theaters.

Hawaiians hollow the trunks to make drums and canoes and even use the dried husks to carve 

buttons for Aloha shirts.

Roots of the tree are used as toothbrushes ( and you buy the fancy ones for $4 and up).

Last but not the least palm trees remind me of the home I left behind years ago...