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Some he recognized, like the ivory-nut palms and salt-tolerant casuarina pines, while others were new to him.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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The tagua nut, a botanical alternative to ivory (a.k.a. vegetable ivory), is a seed that comes from the ivory-nut palm or tagua palm which grows in the humid tropical forest of South America.
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