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commonly known as ivory palms, ivory-nut palms or tagua palms (/ˈtɑːɡwə, ˈtæɡ-/); the scientific name Phytelephas means "plant ivory" or more literally...

{{{annotations}}} Vegetable ivory or tagua nut is a product made from the very hard white endosperm of the seeds of certain palm trees. Vegetable ivory is named for...

Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a country on the southern coast of West Africa. Its capital...

weeks ended September 9, 2001. A classic Ivory soap bar contains sodium tallowate, sodium cocoate or sodium palm kernelate, water, sodium chloride, sodium...

bill Pink ivory, an African tree and the wood derived from it Ivory palm, a South American tree and the carvable tissue derived from it Ivory Coast, a...

The palm tree Phytelephas aequatorialis, commonly known as Ecuadorian ivory palm, is the main source of Ecuadorean vegetable ivory or tagua, a botanical...

Ivory is a hard, white material from the tusks (traditionally from elephants) and teeth of animals, that consists mainly of dentine, one of the physical...

pineapple (50 thousand tons). Ivory Coast is among the world's largest producers and exporters of cocoa beans and palm oil. Consequently, the economy...

land. Ivory Coast is the world's largest producer of cocoa, a major national cash crop. Other chief crops include coffee, bananas, and oil palms, which...

including coconut products, oils, dates, palm syrup, ivory nuts, carnauba wax, rattan cane, raffia, and palm wood. This family supplies a large amount...

Lake Yarinacocha (possibly from Quechua yarina ivory palm, qucha lake) is a lake in Peru located in the Ucayali Region, Coronel Portillo Province, Yarinacocha...

containing plants rare for the area such as pod mahogany, ebony, ivory palm, wild date palm, batoko plum and creepers and lianas. Outside the riparian zone...

century with the development of the trade in palm oil, and the continuation of the trade in textiles, ivory and other resources. To preserve the kingdom's...

than ivory. Teeth: a variety of other teeth are used for netsuke, including: boars', bears', and even tigers'. Tagua nut: the nut from the ivory palm (Phytelephas...

India, it is called toddy. In Ivory Coast, it is called koutoukou. In the Philippines, the most common distilled palm liquor is lambanog which is made...

Central America. The cohune palm is used in the production of cohune oil and its nut can be used as a variety of vegetable ivory. A chief occurrence as a...

Heart of palm is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees, most notably the coconut (Cocos nucifera), juçara (Euterpe...

commonly called Panama ivory palm, is a species of flowering plant in the family Arecaceae. It is one of the plants used for vegetable ivory. The species epithet...

Christian domination, is pictured on an ivory diptych bearing a palm branch in an allegorical triumph over death. Palms on an Achaemenid seal impression, 5th...

The Ceroxyloideae are a subfamily of flowering plants in the palm family found mainly in the Americas with an outlying genus in each of Australia, Madagascar...