Botanical Name - Anacardium occidentale
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Cashew
The cashew, Anacardium occidentale, is a tree in the family
Anacardiaceae. Its English name derives from the Portuguese name
for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju (Portuguese pronunciation),
which itself is derived from the indigenous Tupi name, acajú.
Originally native to Northeastern Brazil, it is now widely grown
in tropical climates for its cashew apples and nuts.
The name Anacardium actually refers to the shape of the fruit,
which looks like an inverted heart (ana means "upwards" and
-cardium means "heart"). In the Tupian languages acajú means "nut
that produces itself".
While native to Northeast Brazil, the Portuguese took the cashew
plant to Goa, India, between the years of 1560 and 1565. From
there it spread throughout Southeast Asia and eventually Africa.
The cashew tree is large and evergreen, growing to 10-12m (~32 ft)
tall, with a short, often irregularly shaped trunk. The leaves are
spirally arranged, leathery textured, elliptic to obviate, 4 to 22
cm long and 2 to 15 cm broad, with a smooth margin. The flowers
are produced in a panicle or corymbs 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 largest cashew tree in
the world covers an area of about 7,500 square meters (81,000 sq
ft).
The fruit of the cashew tree is an accessory fruit (sometimes
called a pseudocarp or false fruit). What appears to be the fruit
is an oval or pear-shaped structure, a hypocarpium, that develops
from the pedicel and the receptacle of the cashew flower. 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. It
is edible, and has a strong "sweet" smell and a sweet taste.
The pulp of the cashew apple is very juicy, but the skin is
fragile, making it unsuitable for transport. In Latin America, a
fruit drink is made from the cashew apple pulp which has a very
refreshing taste and tropical flavor that can be described as
having notes of mango, raw green pepper, and just a little hint of
grapefruit-like citrus. The true fruit of the cashew tree is a
kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the
cashew apple. The drupe develops first on the tree, and then the
pedicel expands to become the cashew apple.
Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. Although a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the nut of the cashew is a seed. The seed is surrounded by a double shell containing an allergenic phenolic resin, anacardic acid, a potent skin irritant chemically related to the better-known allergenic oil urushiol which is also a toxin found in the related poison ivy.
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