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Cashew
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Cashew

Cashews ready for harvest in Guinea-Bissau
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae

Division:Magnoliophyta

Class:Magnoliopsida

Order:Sapindales

Family:Anacardiaceae

Genus:Anacardium

Species:A. occidentale

Binomial name
Anacardium occidentale
L.
The Cashew (Anacardium occidentale; syn. Anacardium curatellifolium A.St.-Hil.) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portuguese name Caju (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew "nuts" (see below) and cashew apples.

'Anacardium occidentale', from Koehler's 'Medicinal-Plants' (1887)

Tree shape
It is a small evergreen tree growing to 10-12 m tall, with a short, often irregularly-shaped trunk. 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. 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.
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. 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.
The true fruit of the cashew tree is a kidney or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. Actually, the drupe develops first on the tree, and then the peduncle expands into the pseudofruit. Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut. Although a nut in the culinary sense, in the botanical sense the fruit of the cashew is a seed. However, the true fruit is classified as a nut by some botanists. 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). Some people are allergic to cashews, but cashews are a less frequent allergen than some other nuts.
Other vernacular names include cajueiro, cashu, casho, acajuiba, caju, acajou, acaju, acajaiba, alcayoiba, anacarde, anacardier, anacardo, cacajuil, cajou, gajus, jocote maranon, maranon, merey, noix d’acajou, pomme cajou, pomme, jambu, jambu golok, jambu mete, jambu monyet, jambu terong, kasoy. In the Antilles, specifically Puerto Rico, it is known as pajuil and the pseudofruit is the main used part as raw fruit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cashew

----- Original Message ----
From: Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com>
To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 1:15:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Quiz

But isn't a cashew a nut, not a fruit?

Hank

On 5/10/07, Luis Guzman <trpclman at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> There is another answer for number 4: Cashew has it's seed on the outside.
>
> Luis
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Hank <hnw555 at gmail.com>
> To: The Rhodes 22 mail list <rhodes22-list at rhodes22.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, May 9, 2007 9:27:46 AM
> Subject: [Rhodes22-list] Fwd: Quiz
>
>
> Hello fellow Rhodies,
>
> Here is another quiz to get your braining going this morning.  I did much
> worse on this one than the other one.
>
> Hank
>
> This   is a quiz for people who know everything! I found out in a hurry
> that
> I   didn't. These are not trick questions. They are straight questions
> with
> straight answers.
>
> 1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators   nor the
> participants
> know the score or the leader until the contest   ends.
>
> 2. What famous North American   landmark is constantly moving backward?
>
> 3. Of all vegetables, only two can live to produce on   their own for
> several growing seasons. All other vegetables must be replanted   every
> year. What are the only two perennial vegetables?
>
> 4. What fruit has its seeds on the   outside?
>
> 5. In many liquor stores,   you can buy pear brandy, with a real pear
> inside
> the bottle. The pear is whole   and ripe, and the bottle is genuine; it
> hasn't been cut in any way. How did   the pear get inside the bottle?
>
> 6.   Only three words in standard English begin with the letters " dw" and
> they are   all common words. Name two of them.
>
> 7. There are 14 punctuation marks in English grammar.   Can you name at
> least half of them?
>
> 8. Name the only vegetable or fruit that is never sold   frozen, canned,
> processed, cooked, or in any other form except   fresh.
>
> 9. Name 6 or more things   that you can wear on your feet beginning with
> the
> letter   "S."
>
>
> Answers To Quiz:
>
> 1. The one sport in which neither the spectators nor   the participants
> know
> the score or the leader until the contest ends .    Boxing
>
> 2. North American landmark   constantly moving backward . Niagara   Falls
> (The rim is worn down about two   and a half feet each year because of the
> millions of gallons of water that   rush over it every minute.)
>
> 3. Only two vegetables that can live to produce on   their own for several
> growing seasons . . Asparagus and   rhubarb.
>
> 4. The fruit with its   seeds on the outside . . Strawberry.
>
> 5. How did the pear get inside the brandy bottle? It   grew inside the
> bottle. (The bottles are placed over pear buds when they are   small, and
> are wired in place on the tree. The bottle is left in place for the
> entire
> growing season. When the pears are ripe, they are snipped off at the
> stems.)
>
> 6. Three English words   beginning with dw . Dwarf, dwell and dwindle.
>
> 7. Fourteen punctuation marks in English grammar . .   Period, comma,
> colon,
> semicolon, dash, hyphen, apostrophe, question mark,   exclamation point,
> quotation marks, bracket s, parenthesis, braces, and   ellipses.
>
> 8. The only vegetable or   fruit never sold ! frozen, canned, processed,
> cooked, or in any other form but   fresh Lettuce.
>
> 9. Six or more   things you can wear on your feet beginning with "s" .
> Shoes, socks, sandals,   sneakers, slippers, skis, skates, snowshoes,
> stockings,   stilts.
>
>
> PLEASE DO YOUR PART....... Today is National   Mental Health Day. You can
> do
> your part by remembering to   send an e-mail to at least one unstable
> person
>
> Well, my job's done!
>
>
> LIFE IS A JOURNEY. ROLL DOWN THE WINDOW AND ENJOY THE   BREEZE
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