The coconut is the nut of a palm tree and is known and useful to millions of people. Now here’s a strange thing about this tree. Nobody knows where it originated! At the dawn of history this tree was already growing in every tropical land and seems to have always been part of the landscape. Scientists believe that the nuts were carried in ancient times by the ocean tides and by man from one tropical country to another. In this way, they spread everywhere so long ago that we can’t trace them back to any one place!