Vegetable Ivory
Any hard, white or cream-colored product of a plant which simulates elephant ivory. It has gained in popularity as the harvesting of animal has been banned or severely limited.
In the arena of legally traded ivories and ivory simulants, most items are modestly priced with rarer and larger items and those with greater antiquity or higher artistic merit at the top, and vegetable ivory, bone, ...
There are many types of Ivory including Elephant, Mammoth and Elk.
There are also many types of Ivory Substitutes including bone, vegetable ivory, plastics and resins.
This led to the setting up of a number of factories in France and England in 1862. By the end of the nineteenth century vegetable ivory was flourishing. The nuts of the Betel tree and Areca nuts are also used.
Vegetable ivory comes from the inner seed of the South American ivory palm and was used for small items, like dice. Synthetic ivory is made from plastics (like celluloid) and is called "French Ivory," Ivoride, Ivorine, or "Genuine French Ivory." ...
other items, ivory has been widely banned over the past couple of decades due to the risk of extinction of its donor species. Ancient, fossilized ivory is sometimes seen. Bone is widely used as a substitute for ivory, as is so-called vegetable ivory ...
 See also: Table, Substitute, Color, Surface, Jewel
  
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