Coco de Mer or Sea Coconut Taxidermy full body mount - Lodoicea Maldivica - 300 mm - 260 mm - 170 mm

Coco De Mer is one of the most particular fruits in the world: it grows only on the islands of Praslin and Curieuse, in the Seychelles and has an incredible resemblance on one side to female genitals and on the other to buttocks.

This particularly large specimen has been worked to make it a fascinating ornamental object.
Sectioned in two, emptied and adorned with beautiful inlays, this rare fruit is now an exclusive sculpture that can be used as a furnishing element and to store objects of any kind inside.

The ripe fruit is very heavy, 15-25kg, and therefore unable to float, it sank in the sea until the internal pulp rotted and the internal gases made it resurface. Hence the erroneous belief that it was the fruit of some unknown marine tree and the name "coco di mare" was born. This is also the reason why this palm has never spread to other islands.
Now a protected species, it has become a collector's item, given that it is exported exclusively under the control of the government, which uses the proceeds for conservation activities.

Dimension: 300 x 260 x 170 mm
Weight: 1120g
Origin: Seychelles