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Almost gynoecious variety of coconut is

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Almost Gynoecious variety of coconut is Spicata.
Gynoecious varieties are special hybrids that produce predominantly female flowers.
Palms that contain morphologically different inflorescences are referred to as spicata coconut.
These are branchless inflorescence with an abnormally large number of female flowers, most of them developed into mature fruits due to a low setting percentage,125 female flowers per bunch from which only 4.5 mature fruits were produced on average. Oil productivity of this variety was estimated to be 10 - 15 kg per year.
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