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More recent breeds, such as the dwarf cashew trees, are up to 6 m (20 ft) tall and start producing after the first year, with economic yields after three years. The cashew nut yields for the traditional tree are about 0.25 t/ha (0.100 long ton/acre; 0.11 short ton/acre), in contrast to over a ton per hectare for the dwarf variety.
Semecarpus australiensis, commonly known as the tar tree, native cashew, marking nut, or cedar plum, is a species of tree in the cashew and mango family Anacardiaceae, native to parts of Melanesia and northern Australia. Contact with the plant can cause serious allergic reactions, a common characteristic of this family.
It is a deciduous tree. Like the closely related cashew, the fruit is composed of two parts, a reddish-orange accessory fruit and a black drupe that grows at the end. The nut is about 25 millimetres (1 in) long, ovoid and smooth lustrous black.
The tree is found at altitudes between 380m and 1100m, mostly above 780m; it prefers acidic soils (pH 4,5-6,5) and tolerates droughts and poor soils. It is easily propagated from seeds. [ 4 ] It flowers between June and October; fruits mature in September and October, and can be harvested two or three years after planting.
Flowers have the ovary free, but the petals and stamen are borne on the calyx. [5] In the stamenate flowers, ovaries are single-celled. In the pistillate flowers, ovaries are single or sometimes quadri- or quinticelled. One to three styles and one ovule occur in each cavity. [4] Fruits rarely open at maturity [5] and are most often drupes. [4]
The Cashew Tree of Pirangi (Cajueiro de Pirangi), also called the world's largest cashew tree (maior cajueiro do mundo), is a cashew tree in Pirangi do Norte, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil. [1] In 1994, the tree entered the Guinness Book of Records. [1] It covers an area between 7,300 square metres (1.8 acres) [2] and 8,400 square metres (2.1 ...
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The Goan cashew refers to the variety of the cashew fruit grown in the Indian state of Goa, which is one of the major cashew-growing Indian states. [1] In the entire state of Goa, the cashew crop spans approximately 55,302 hectares, yielding an estimated 27,070 tonnes annually. [2] Goa Kaju or Goa Caju are variations of the same name. [3] [4]