Tagua, also called Vegetable Ivory, for its hardness and consistency. At the end of the 19th century, Ecuadorians had buttons, they became world power in buttons, in such a way that Europeans realized that there was a seed that resembled ivory. In 1930 they began the era of plastic and there they began to replace the label with plastic.

This seed is given in the Pacific tropics, from Ecuador to Panama, the label in Colombia is wild.