The arecanut palm is the source of common chewing nut, popularly known as betel nut or Supari. ... India is the largest producer of arecanut and at the same time largest consumer also. more...
The botanical name for the coconut is cocos nucifera , with cocos believed to come from Spanish, meaning “monkey-faced” or “eerie-faced” and nucifera from Latin meaning nut-bearing plant (from fero = I bear and nux-nucis = nut). It’s nut, perhaps bearing three germinamore...