10억100만불짜리 나무

A regular coconut tree. The Marc Delorme Agricultural Research Centre in Ivory Coast says

it will reluctantly part with its pride possession, a magnificent 30-metre (100-feet) Malayan tall

with three heads, in exchange for a million dollars to help fund its research(AFP/File)

아이보리코스트 농업연구소에서 정말 마지 못하여 그렇게 자랑스럽게

소유하고 있던 30m 높이의 아주 희귀한 나무 머리 부분이 3개인 코코아

나무를 100만뷸에 팔겠다고 내 놓았단다. 대개 코코아 나무는 머리부분이

하나 뿐인 데 이 나무는 아주 잘 뻗은 일직선에다 머리부분까지 3개라는

특징을 가지고 있다고 한다. 패리스 힐튼 양이라면...

World's first million-dollar coconut tree for sale

Tue Feb 7, 10:49 AM ET

PARIS (AFP) - Looking for something special to brighten your home, garden, tropical beachfront hotel

or casino? How about a million-dollar coconut tree?

This is no ordinary palm tree, though -- it's a botanical marvel, for the tree has three heads instead of one.

The Marc Delorme Agricultural Research Centre in Ivory Coast says it will reluctantly part with its pride

possession, a magnificent 30-metre (100-feet) Malayan tall, in exchange for a million dollars to help fund

its research.

"Coconut trees with multiple heads are very rare and I have never seen any as beautiful as this," coconut

expert Roland Bourdeix, of France's Centre for International Agronomic Research for Development (Cirad),

told AFP. Cirad helps the centre, located about 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of Abidjan, which has a 56-year

record of research into coconut trees and oil. Coconut trees usually grow in a single stem. Only rarely do

they fork to make two heads and three-headed versions are rarer still.