The tree’s palm heart – a soft fruit in the trunk – is a nutritious delicacy. Most palms can regrow from their shoots but the juçara cannot, so when the palm heart is removed, the tree dies.

This palm tree knows how to water itself ... "But to our knowledge coco de mer has absolutely mastered the art," he says. It's quite obvious to anyone standing near the tree in a rainstorm what's ...

"The only thing they've learned is that art hangs in a museum and you're not supposed to touch," he said. Seeing the tree and its fruit as works of art helps expand that idea to something limitless.