What is the best specie of coconut to be planted near salty water?

Question

does anyone know what kind of coconut should be planted near a the beach of a very salty river? where it would grow and bear gigantic and tasty coconut fruit/nut?

Answer 1

Any coconut will do.  Coconuts live near the sea, and disperse their seeds (nuts) by floating in the ocean.  Their natural condition is to wash up on shore and germinate in the sand.

Answer 2

The species of coconut palm is Cocos nucifera.  All will grow well near salty water and can even be watered with salt water.  

What you need is select the best variety of coconut palm that will do best for you.

No other palm says "tropical" like the coconut and few can be argued as more beautiful.  The coconut palm is also the most recognized palm in the world

There are several varieties planted but the old 'Jamaica Tall' coconuts have almost all died of Lethal Yellowing disease.  This previously dominant variety is the very tall, curving type.

It is recommended  now to plant the shorter, fatter Green Malayan Coconut which produces green nuts.  Also the less popular Golden Malayan which sports yellow nuts and somewhat yellow fronds can also be grown. There is also a Red Malayan species.  These are rated at 95% resistant to Lethal Yellowing

The taller growing Maypan Coconut is harder to acquire but reminds us of the stately Jamaicans of the times before Lethal Yellowing took its toll

The most rare variety is the Double Coconut, Lodoicoa maldivica, whose fruit size is more like 5x a normal Coconut. you may want to try this variety.

Coconuts are salt tolerant growing right on the beach.

For best results, acquire a small young coconut and plant it with plenty of high quality manure (50 lbs. is good) mixed in the planting hole and soil.

Fertilize 4x to 6x a year with top quality palm food and watch your coconut grow to its maximum beauty. If you plant young trees and care for them well, they get extra fat and grow even more beautiful.

For more advice and pictures see the link listed.

Answer 3

Kingdom:    Plantae

Division:      Magnoliophyta

Class:      Liliopsida

Order:      Arecales

Family:      Arecaceae

Genus:      Cocos

Species:      C. nucifera

That's a safe bet.

But be careful of Lethal yellowing.