Phytelephas

Cedrela oderata, Copaifera reticulata, and Phytelephas macrocarpa.

Iquitos varzea 2008

Other species are very valuable for the non-wood products they provide; this is true of the tagua palm (Phytelephas aequatorialis) and "barbasco" (Jacquinia sprucei).

Ecuadorian dry forests 2007

Vegetable ivory is the kernel of the fruit of one of the most beautiful of palms (_Phytelephas macrocarpa_).

Miscellanea Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863

(_Phytelephas_), he watches for the deer and wild boars, or attacks the oxen employed to turn the machinery in the sugar-mills: he has even been known to assail solitary travellers.

Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Johann Jakob von Tschudi 1853

(_Phytelephas_), of which there are but two species known -- the great fruited and little fruited (_macrocarpa_ and _microcarpa_).

Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt Mayne Reid 1850

The Spaniards of South America call the palm which produces the vegetable ivory (_Phytelephas macrocarpa_) _Palma de marfil_, and the nut itself, _marfil vegetal_.

Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon James Emerson Tennent 1836

In the north of the region, some of the best known plants yield products of commercial value, such as rubber (Hevea brasiliensis), mahogany (Swietenia macrophylla), balsam wood (Myroxylon balsamum), timber and essential oil (Amburana acreana), tagua nut (Phytelephas microcarpa), and strychnine (Strychnos asperula).

Southwest Amazon moist forests 2008

Why should not the industry and ingenuity which have wrought such wonders in our horticulture produce analogous results when applied to the cultivation and amelioration of larger vegetables Might not, for instance, the ivory nut, the fruit of the Phytelephas macrocarpa, possibly be so increased in size as to serve nearly all the purposes of animal ivory now becoming so scarce Might not the various milk-producing trees become, by cultivation, a really important source of nutriment to the inhabitants of warm climates In short, there is room to hope incalculable advantage from the exercise of human skill in the improvement of yet untamed forms of vegetable life.

Earth as Modified by Human Action, The~ Chapter 02 (historical) 1874