Phytelephas Macrocarpa
The vegetable ivory plant, a native of
the northern parts of South America. The fruit consists of a
collection of six or seven drupes; each contains from six to nine
seeds, the vegetable ivory of commerce. The seeds at first contain
a clear, insipid
liquid; afterwards it becomes milky and sweet,
and changes by degrees until it becomes hard as ivory. Animals eat
the fruit in its young green state; a sweet oily pulp incloses the
seeds, and is collected and sold in the markets under the name of
Pipa de Jagua. Vegetable ivory may be distinguished from animal
ivory by means of sulphuric acid, which gives a bright red color
with the vegetable ivory, but none with the animal ivory.
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