Ivory Palm


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Ivory Palm

 

(also ivory-nut palm), a palm of the genus Jubaea that grows in Chile.

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Trade in palm products in north-western South America
The nuts, ranging in size from a golf ball to a large chicken egg, grow in Central and South America on ivory palms.
TAGUA NUTS -- THE IVORY EVEN ELEPHANTS WOULD APPROVE OF USING

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