In a bearing palm, every leaf axil can produce a Spadix or infloresence which under normal conditions various from 12 to 15 annually. : :The inflorescence develops within a strong, tough, pointed toubje sheath called spathe, which after full development splits from top to bottom and releases the inflorescences. This usually occurs from 15 to 90 days after the first appeearence of its tip in the leaf axil. The primordis of the inflorescence begin to form in the leaf axil about 32 months before the opening of the spath.
Coconut Palmis monecious and produces several hundred male and few female flowers on the same infforescance, if bears about 30-35 apikelets each having about 250-300 male flowers at its top and one or few female flowers at the base. In general the no. of female flowers/inflorescence varied from 10-50.