beans

On Sat, 07 Apr 2007 03:45:02 -0000, "RI Kanaka"
<rhodeislandkanakaDELETETHISm> wrote:

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> <beans@smithfarms.com> wrote in message
> news:1175899801-sch@news.lava.net...

> My guess is that, although the first Hawaiians brought coconut plants
> with them, they also probably found the shores of Hawaii already
> covered
> with coconut and other palm plants that millenia earlier had drifted
> across the Pacific as seeds from other distant lands. Pretty hardy
> seed, the coconut.
My husband the historian says there was no proof of that despite what
we would have imagined. Early visitors remarked that coconuts were
not nearly as numerous here as they were in the more southern islands.

We are close to the northern range of where Coco nuts would grow.

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