(For a bit of fun, every Friday our Plant Records Manager, Chris Bisson, the guy who maintains all the recorded information on our plant collections, will do a regular blog slot where he recommends his favourite “plant records” – that is, songs that are in some way linked to a plant. (Do you see what we did there?) )

‘Kid Creole & The Coconuts’ – Don’t Take My Coconuts (1983)

The Coconut (Cocos nucifera) is a fantastic palm that can grow up to 30 m. high. When discovered by Portugese explorers, the hard, brown hairy fruit reminded them of a witch or a ghost called ‘Coco’ and when the Coco first landed in the UK we added the ‘nut’ part.

A truly tropical plant, the Coconut Palm has such a warming presence…and of course great tasting fruit!

Kid Creole and the Coconuts have been going since 1980, but the lead singer Thomas August Darnell Browder, was born in 1950! And is still keeping the band on the road!

Chris Bisson – Plant Records Manager – Eden Project