Buttocks coco on brass base

The biggest seed of the world! Untill 1770 the explorers thought that these seeds grew under water and detached once ripe... For they were found floating on the sea or washed up on the shores in the Maldives or India and Sri Lanka! The sea coconut (Lodoicea maldivica) is a very large palm tree native to the Seychelles.These bilobed fruits weigh over 25kg with their fibrous outside. It is also an exclusion clause for car rentals in the Seychelles: no parking under palm trees... But since the 17th century its name of "buttocks coconut", (coco-fesses) makes him a must have of the cabinet de curiosite. With export license.