Coconut Tree There are two types of coconut tree cultivars: full size and dwarf. Mature, full size trees grow to 100 feet tall with single, slender trunks topped by a 20- to 30-foot-wide canopy.

With Vice President Kamala Harris becoming the new Democratic frontrunner after Joe Biden suddenly dropped out of the race on Sunday, her coconut tree meme has resurfaced and gone viral.

Her “coconut tree” quote ended up becoming a meme. It most recently resurfaced after Biden announced on July 21 that he would not seek re-election this year and endorsed Harris to take his ...

It also unleashed a new wave of memes of the vice president, particularly one about a coconut tree. But what does a coconut tree have to do with Harris? It goes back to May 10, 2023.

Coconut trees, meanwhile, have a more narrow range; a full-grown tree always stands somewhere between 30 and 100 feet (dwarf plants will of course be smaller). Location is another big clue.

Google searches for the phrase "coconut tree," as well as corresponding searches about the meme and other quotes from Harris, began to rise around June 28, according to Google Trends data, ...

Part of why the meme works is because it grew organically on the internet and coincided with Harris’ historic rise to the current top of the Democratic presidential ticket.

Harris and the “coconut tree” first went viral in May 2023 after Republican social media accounts like “GOP War Room” on YouTube clipped and posted it online.

A Vice President Harris line — “You think you just fell out of a coconut tree?” — is all over social media paired with a Charli XCX “Brat” song this summer.

The News-Press of Fort Myers in 1951 documented a 45-foot-high coconut tree on Highway 41 in Estero, “laden with ripening fruit the year ‘round,” where the coconuts grew too tall to pick.

From ‘coconut tree’ to ‘we did it, Joe’: All the times Kamala Harris went viral. Harris has been in the spotlight for a slew of viral moments long before becoming the internet’s latest ...

Like all of us, the coconut tree moment exists in the context of all in which it lives and what came before it. Which is to say, it's part of a larger set of memes surrounding Kamala Harris ...