Malayan Yellow Dwarf - Coconut varieties

Coconut varieties malayan yellow 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.The palm's resistance to the Lethal Yellowingdisease is the characteristic that makes it to be one of the important dwarf types in the world.

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.

The Maypan coconut palm is a DwarfxTall hybrid between the Malayan Dwarf and Panama Tall. 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.

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

·         GonThembili

·         Haari Papua

·         KelapaGading

·         KelapaRadja

·         Laccadive Dwarf

·         Lakshadweep Dwarf

·         Maldive Dwarf

·         Mangipod

·         Mu-see-Keo

·         N'uleka

·         Nok-koom

·         Pilipog

·         Pugai

·         Pumila

·         RathThembli

·         Regia