9/4/2023 0 Comments Cashew plant maranon![]() ![]() In the Antilles, specifically Puerto Rico, it is known as pajuil and the pseudofruit is the main used part as raw fruit.Ĭashew Industry File:2005cashew.PNG Cashew nut output in 2005 Other vernacular names include cajueiro, cashu, casho, acajuiba, caju, acajou, acaju, acajaiba, alcayoiba, anacarde, anacardier, anacardo, cacajuil, cajou, gajus, godambi (in Kannada), jeedi pappu (in Telugu), jocote maranon, maranon, merey, noix d’acajou, pomme cajou, pomme, jambu, jambu golok, jambu mete, jambu monyet, jambu terong, kasoy. ![]() Some people are allergic to cashews, but cashews are a less frequent allergen than some nuts. The seed is surrounded by a double shell containing a caustic phenolic resin, urushiol, a potent skin irritant toxin also found in the related poison ivy. Although a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the fruit of the cashew is a seed. Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. Actually, the drupe develops first on the tree, and then the peduncle expands into the pseudofruit. The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. Called the cashew apple, better known in Central America as " marañón", it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about 5–11 cm long. What appears to be the fruit of the cashew tree is an oval or pear-shaped accessory fruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. The flowers are produced in a panicle or corymb up to 26 cm long, each flower small, pale green at first then turning reddish, with five slender, acute petals 7 to 15 mm long. The leaves are spirally arranged, leathery textured, elliptic to obovate, 4 to 22 cm long and 2 to 15 cm broad, with a smooth margin. It is a small evergreen tree growing to 10-12 m tall, with a short, often irregularly-shaped trunk. It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew "nuts" (see below) and cashew apples.įile:Koeh-010.jpg 'Anacardium occidentale', from Koehler's 'Medicinal-Plants' (1887) File:Anacardium occidentale tree.jpg Tree shape ![]() The plant is native to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portuguese name Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). Anacardium curatellifolium A.St.-Hil.) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. ![]()
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