Malayan Dwarf
The Malayan Dwarf is a variety of coconut palm. The palm is classified based on the nut color: ivory yellow nuts, apricot red nuts, and green nuts.[1] The palm's resistance to the Lethal Yellowing disease is the characteristic that makes it to be one of the important dwarf types in the world.[1]
Recognition of the Malayan Dwarf's resistance to lethal yellowing was in 1956 at Round Hill, Jamaica, where the Malayan Dwarfs affected by the disease was only a very small percentage.[1]
The Maypan coconut palm is a DwarfxTall hybrid between the Malayan Dwarf and Panama Tall.[1] The DwarfxTall hybrid between the Malayan Dwarf (yellow) and West African Tall is locally known as Mawa, in Ivory Coast, Mawa is known as Port-Bouet-121.[1]
Other types of dwarfs are: (in alphabetical order)
- Cameroon Red Dwarf
- Chowghat Dwarf Green
- Chowghat Dwarf Orange
- Coconino
- Eburnea
- Equatorial Guinea Green Dwarf
- Equatorial Guinea Yellow Dwarf
- Gangabondam
- Ghana Yellow Dwarf
- Gon Thembili
- Haari Papua
- Kelapa Gading
- Kelapa Radja
- Laccadive Dwarf
- Lakshadweep Dwarf
- Maldive Dwarf
- Mangipod
- Mu-see-Keo
- N'uleka
- Nok-koom
- Pilipog
- Pugai
- Pumila
- Rath Thembli
- Regia
References
Bibliography
- P.K. Thampan, V.T. Markose. 1973. The Dwarf Coconut. Directorate of Coconut Development, Cochin.