For hundreds of years, a trade route between Mexico's Pacific coast and the Philippines brought a ferment made of palm sap.

The coconut palm (cocos nucifera) is a universal symbol of the tropics. It’s classified as a grass, not a tree, by some botanists. The coconut is actually a fruit and seed all in one. In fact, it’s ...

Few plants in the world have earned a title as sweeping as "tree of a thousand uses," but the coconut palm comes closer to ...