Anacardium

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 Anacardium subsp. var.  
Anacardium occidentale fruit
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Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.


Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture

Anacardium (name refers to the heart-shaped character of the nut). Anacardiàceae. Eight species native to the American tropics, of which one (yielding the cashew nut) is widely cultivated in tropical countries.

Trees and shrubs with leathery alternate lvs.: fls. small and numerous in panicles, polygamous; calyx 5-cleft; petals 5, very narrow; stamens 7-10: fr. kidney-shaped, borne on a greatly enlarged hard receptacle.


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