Ivory Nut Palm

The Ivory Nut or Tagua Palm, native to the western rim of the Amazon basin, Colombia to Bolivia. Photo from former.

Peru, Madre de Dios, Inkaterra Reserva Amazonica.

Madre de Dios, Peru

Madre de Dios, Peru

Madre de Dios, Peru

Seed pods of an Ivory Nut Palm that yield carvable "vegetable ivory" or marfil vegetal, known as Tagua Nuts. In context at www.dixpix.ca/Amazon/flora/palms/index.html

Curtis's botanical magazine..London ;New York [etc.] :Academic Press [etc.].biodiversitylibrary.org/page/438377

Curtis's botanical magazine..London ;New York [etc.] :Academic Press [etc.].biodiversitylibrary.org/page/438378

Description: English: Phytelephas macrocarpa Ruiz & Pav. Date: 1869. Source: Karsten, K.W.G.H., Florae Columbiae, vol. 1: t. 82 (1869). Author: Karsten, K.W.G.H.

Description: Seed pods of an Ivory Nut Palm that yield carvable "vegetable ivory" or marfil vegetal, known as Tagua Nuts. In context at www.dixpix.ca/Amazon/flora/palms/index.html. Date: 20 January 2014, 19:27. Source: Phytelephas macrocarpa. Author: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada.

Description: The Ivory Nut or Tagua Palm, native to the western rim of the Amazon basin, Colombia to Bolivia. Photo from former. Date: 17 July 2015, 19:05. Source: Phytelephas macrocarpa. Author: Dick Culbert from Gibsons, B.C., Canada.

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Description: English: Phytelephas macrocarpa Ruiz & Pav. Date: 1856. Source: Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 82 [ser. 3, vol. 12]: t. 4913 (1856) [W.H. Fitch]. Author: [W.H. Fitch].