A small coconut with its top cut off above the words Happy Birthday in spaced gold capitals. — Inside: four of your photos stand up below this, with your note.

Coconut Palm

Pictures by Walter MüllerWords by Franz Eugen Köhler

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A coconut palm stands among whole and halved coconuts in this 1898 botanical plate by Walther Otto Müller, with Happy Birthday inside in quiet gold letters. The palm gives food, drink, oil, rope and roofing, which is why it came to be called the tree of life. For someone with a birthday and a love of green, growing things.

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Inside, it says

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

On the back

From the great botanical books of the 1700s to the 1900s / COCONUT PALM / Cocos nucifera / A coconut can float across an ocean and still sprout on a far-off beach. The palm gives food, drink, oil, rope and roofing, which is why it is called the tree of life. / Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen, 1898 / From Franz Eugen Köhler's guide to the healing and useful plants, drawn by Walther Otto Müller and his colleagues with every part set out like a specimen.

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