coconut at Cape Tribulation, QLD
Identification history
| Cocos nucifera | 17 Sep 2025 | JasonPStewart | ||
| Cocos nucifera | 17 Sep 2025 | Tapirlord |
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5 comments
Tapirlord
wrote:
17 Sep 2025
Thanks Jason. Interesting that these trees are exotic, I thought they might’ve native at the time. Are they particularly invasive?
JasonPStewart
wrote:
17 Sep 2025
Indigenous (aka native) .
NatureMapr taxonomy needs correcting here.
You have no doubt heard of Terra Nullius – lies overturned by the High Court in the Mabo 2 case with so much credit to awesome late Eddie Koiki Mabo.
Beware of Coconut Nullius lies .
Correction done !
NatureMapr taxonomy needs correcting here.
You have no doubt heard of Terra Nullius – lies overturned by the High Court in the Mabo 2 case with so much credit to awesome late Eddie Koiki Mabo.
Beware of Coconut Nullius lies .
Correction done !
Tapirlord
wrote:
17 Sep 2025
Thanks for the clarification Jason, i'm very pleased to hear that!
Yes Mabo is fascinating stuff; I read it in my first year of legal studies actually. Powerful judgement.
Yes Mabo is fascinating stuff; I read it in my first year of legal studies actually. Powerful judgement.
JasonPStewart
wrote:
17 Sep 2025
NatureMapr requires a "Native and naturalised" status just as every botanical information system and flora has.
Including for _Cocos nucifera_:
– base information: indigenous (aka native)
– more nuanced basic information : indigenous (aka native) and spread further than natural range by horticulture and unsustainable activities such as coastal beaches' vegetation destruction by non-indigenous people.
(An unfortunately common example:
Excluding most of the diverse indigenous flora and only keeping little more diversity of spp. than these indigenous palms, in many towns' and cities' beaches).
For a notable example and topical here in this sighting:
Coconuts certainly indigenous in Kulki (region)
[English language place name improved by me: 'Cape Tribute'
rather than James Cook's narcissistic vain trivia name he made up in ignorance and denial of Yalanji people and their place name, about the ship 'Endeavour', Cook, Banks and their crew 's ignorance of the great barrier reefs and near shore reefs, failure(s) in navigating, majorly damaging the ship, their own arrogant–ignorant fault.
Rhetorically i say 250+ years later to Cook, Banks and crew in 2025! hindsight!:
Do not psychologically project your own failings, vulgar ignorances, invasions and destructions, onto the respective Country, including onto its seascapes, landscapes, peoples, and so rich and so diverse life.]
Including for _Cocos nucifera_:
– base information: indigenous (aka native)
– more nuanced basic information : indigenous (aka native) and spread further than natural range by horticulture and unsustainable activities such as coastal beaches' vegetation destruction by non-indigenous people.
(An unfortunately common example:
Excluding most of the diverse indigenous flora and only keeping little more diversity of spp. than these indigenous palms, in many towns' and cities' beaches).
For a notable example and topical here in this sighting:
Coconuts certainly indigenous in Kulki (region)
[English language place name improved by me: 'Cape Tribute'
rather than James Cook's narcissistic vain trivia name he made up in ignorance and denial of Yalanji people and their place name, about the ship 'Endeavour', Cook, Banks and their crew 's ignorance of the great barrier reefs and near shore reefs, failure(s) in navigating, majorly damaging the ship, their own arrogant–ignorant fault.
Rhetorically i say 250+ years later to Cook, Banks and crew in 2025! hindsight!:
Do not psychologically project your own failings, vulgar ignorances, invasions and destructions, onto the respective Country, including onto its seascapes, landscapes, peoples, and so rich and so diverse life.]
Tapirlord
wrote:
17 Sep 2025
I agree. I think we are missing significant nuance on a good number of species now you mention it.
Location information
- Coordinates 145.453094-16.133964
- Altitude 2.0m
- Places Cape Tribulation, QLD
Sighting information
- 10 Abundance
- 11 Jul 2025 07:30 AM Recorded on
- Tapirlord Recorded by
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Collections
My Trip to Far North Queensland in 2025 Tapirlord NatureMapr Cocos nucifera Palms Palms and tree-like monocots Plants
Additional information
- Greater than 5 metres Plant height
Species information
- Cocos nucifera Scientific name
- coconut Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 16.04m Recorded at altitude
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