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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. The tree can grow as tall as 14 metres (46 feet), but the dwarf cultivars, growing up to 6 m (20 ft), prove more profitable, with ...
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.
A selection of accessory fruits (from left to right: pear, fig, and strawberry) An accessory fruit is a fruit that contains tissue derived from plant parts other than the ovary. In other words, the flesh of the fruit develops not from the floral ovary, but from some adjacent tissue exterior to the carpel (for example, from receptacles or sepal ...
An assortment of different caryopses. Wheat spikelet with the three anthers sticking out. Caryopsis cross-section. In botany, a caryopsis (pl. caryopses) is a type of simple fruit—one that is monocarpellate (formed from a single carpel) and indehiscent (not opening at maturity) [1] and resembles an achene, except that in a caryopsis the pericarp is fused with the thin seed coat.
View of the world's largest cashew tree View from intersecting road Rota do Sol (en: Route of the Sun) View of the interior with individuals for size comparison. 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]
A type of sweet roll made with fruit, fruit peel, spices and sometimes nuts. Fruit sandwich Japan: A kind of sandwich that consists of seasonal fruits and whipped cream with milk bread, popular in Japan. [71] Houska [70] Czech Republic: Literally translated as "knitted bread", this is a traditional bread roll baked and consumed in the Czech ...
A nut is a fruit consisting of a hard or tough nutshell protecting a kernel which is usually edible. In general usage and in a culinary sense, many dry seeds are called nuts, but in a botanical context, "nut" implies that the shell does not open to release the seed (indehiscent).
World's largest cashew tree" (Portuguese: o maior cajueiro do mundo) may refer to one of two trees in Brazil: Cashew of Pirangi ( O Cajueiro de Pirangi ), said to cover between 7,300 and 8,400 square metres