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Various folk cultures and traditions assign symbolic meanings to plants. Although these are no longer commonly understood by populations that are increasingly divorced from their rural traditions, some meanings survive. In addition, these meanings are alluded to in older pictures, songs and writings.
Cashew is the common name of a tropical evergreen tree Anacardium occidentale, in the family Anacardiaceae.It is native to South America and is the source of the cashew nut and the cashew apple, an accessory fruit.
Curatella americana, commonly known as the wild cashew tree, [3] sambaı́ba, [3] and the sandpaper tree, [4] is a species of tree in the family Dilleniaceae. It is the sole accepted species in genus Curatella .
The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family [1] or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species. [2] Members of the Anacardiaceae bear fruits that are drupes and in some cases produce urushiol , an irritant .
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 ...
Trees are significant in many of the world's mythologies, and have been given deep and sacred meanings throughout the ages. Human beings, observing the growth and death of trees, and the annual death and revival of their foliage, [1] [2] have often seen them as powerful symbols of
Anacardium excelsum, the wild cashew or espavé, is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The tree is common in the tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests of Pacific and Atlantic watersheds of Central and South America, extending as far north as Guatemala and south into Ecuador .
Semecarpus cuneiformis is a tree in the cashew and sumac family Anacardiaceae. [2] The specific epithet cuneiformis is from the Latin meaning 'wedge-shaped', referring to the leaf base. [ 3 ]