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Tagua nut carving These tagua nut buttons reveal the grain on the top. The carved hole in the shank is the natural color. The carved hole in the shank is the natural color. Species in the genus Phytelephas (literally "elephant plant"), native to South America , are the most important sources of vegetable ivory.
The "nut" is covered with pericarp, which gets removed by animals. The kernel is covered with a brown, flaky skin and shaped like a small avocado, roughly 4–8 cm in diameter. The male plants produce catkins up to three feet (0.9 meter) in length of male flowers, each bearing up to one thousand stamens, [7] the greatest number of any Monocot.
The nine or ten genera in the family have a total of around 50 species, [3] and include the commercially important nut-producing trees walnut (Juglans), pecan (Carya illinoinensis), and hickory (Carya). The Persian walnut, Juglans regia, is one of the major nut crops of the world.
Each family's formal name ends in the Latin suffix -aceae and is derived from the name of a genus that is or once was part of the family. [ 3 ] The table below contains seed-bearing families from Plants of the World by Maarten J. M. Christenhusz (lead author), Michael F. Fay and Mark W. Chase , with two updated families [ a ] from Plants of the ...
Other species that can tolerate the acidic soils of the taiga are lichens and mosses, yellow nutsedge, and water horsetail. The depth to bedrock has an effect on the plants that grow well in the taiga as well. A shallow depth to bedrock forces the plants to have shallow roots, limiting overall stability and water uptake.
Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria: monkey-puzzle trees; Araucaria angustifolia: Paraná pine Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria araucana: monkey-puzzle Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria bidwillii: bunya-bunya Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle family) Araucaria columnaris: Cook pine Araucariaceae (monkey-puzzle ...
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Cyperus esculentus (also called chufa, [3] tiger nut, [4] atadwe, [5] yellow nutsedge, [6] earth almond, and in Chishona, pfende [7]) is a species of plant in the sedge family widespread across much of the world. [8]