“The Vallee de Mai is probably the most visited tourist spot in the Seychelles. People flock here to see the coco-de-mer, partly because it is the biggest seed in the world - a true botanical curiosity - and partly because it is, well, best described as a rude shape.
On the tree, the coconut is a giant green orb, but inside, with the outer husk removed, it closely resembles a female human bottom. In Seychelles creole, the fruit is called “coco fesse” which crudely translates as “bum nut”.
While the female trees bear the nuts - which grow for about seven years before they fall - the male trees grow enormous catkins, giant phallus shaped tubes studded with hundreds of delicate yellow flowers that give off a musky odour.
A Seychelles legend says that during a full moon the coco-de-mer trees walk around the forest in order to mate.” [x][x]
(more at @annotated-hetalia)
