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

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} P.K. Thampan. 1981. Handbook on Coconut Palm. Oxford & IBH Publishing Co.

Bibliography

• P.K. Thampan, V.T. Markose. 1973. The Dwarf Coconut. Directorate of Coconut Development, Cochin.