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The Cashew Anacardium occidentale is a tree in the flowering plant family, Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil, where it is called by its Portuguese name Cajú (the fruit) or Cajueiro (the tree). It is now widely grown in tropical climates for its cashew "nuts" and cashew apples. Originally spread from Brazil by the Portuguese, the cashew tree today can be found in all regions with a sufficiently warm and humid climate. Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Divisions Green algae land plants (embryophytes) non-vascular embryophytes Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses vascular plants (tracheophytes) seedless vascular plants Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongue ferns seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ...
Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ...
Families See text The Sapindales is an order of flowering plants included among the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. ...
Genera Actinocheita Anacardium (cashew) Androtium Antrocaryon Apterokarpos Astronium Baronia Bonetiella Bouea Buchanania Campnosperma Cardenasiodendron Choerospondias Comocladia Cotinus (smoke tree) Cyrtocarpa Dracontomelon Drimycarpus Ebandoua Euleria Euroschinus Faguetia Fegimanra Gluta Haematostaphis Haplorhus Harpephyllum Heeria Holigarna Koordersiodendron Lannea Laurophyllus Lithrea Loxopterigium Loxostylis Mangifera (mango) Mauria Melanochyla Metopium Micronychia Montagueia Mosquitoxylum Nothopegia Ochoterenaea Operculicarya...
In biology, binomial nomenclature is a standard convention used for naming species. ...
Carolus Linnaeus ~Carl Linnaeus~, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné ( listen?), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), was a Swedish botanist who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of taxonomy. ...
The coniferous Coast Redwood, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ...
Genera Actinocheita Anacardium (cashew) Androtium Antrocaryon Apterokarpos Astronium Baronia Bonetiella Bouea Buchanania Campnosperma Cardenasiodendron Choerospondias Comocladia Cotinus (smoke tree) Cyrtocarpa Dracontomelon Drimycarpus Ebandoua Euleria Euroschinus Faguetia Fegimanra Gluta Haematostaphis Haplorhus Harpephyllum Heeria Holigarna Koordersiodendron Lannea Laurophyllus Lithrea Loxopterigium Loxostylis Mangifera (mango) Mauria Melanochyla Metopium Micronychia Montagueia Mosquitoxylum Nothopegia Ochoterenaea Operculicarya...
The tropics are the geographic region of the Earth centered on the equator and limited in latitude by the two tropics: the Tropic of Cancer in the north and the Tropic of Capricorn in the southern hemisphere. ...
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 Cashews ready for harvest in Guinea What appears on the tree to be the "fruit" of the cashew tree is an oval to pear-shaped pseudofruit or false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the cashew flower. Called the cashew apple, it ripens into a yellow and/or red structure about the size of a plum or pear (5-11 cm). Image File history File links Source: [1] Details: Country: Guinea Sector: Agriculture Credit: L. Lartigue Caption: File links The following pages link to this file: Cashew ...
Image File history File links Source: [1] Details: Country: Guinea Sector: Agriculture Credit: L. Lartigue Caption: File links The following pages link to this file: Cashew ...
Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ...
Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive structure of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...
Species See text A plum is a stone fruit tree in the genus Prunus, subgenus Prunus. ...
Species About 30 species, including: Pyrus amygdaliformis Pyrus austriaca Pyrus balansae Pyrus betulifolia Pyrus bourgaeana Pyrus bretschneideri Pyrus calleryana Pyrus caucasica Pyrus communis Pyrus cordata Pyrus cossonii Pyrus elaeagrifolia Pyrus fauriei Pyrus kawakamii Pyrus korshinskyi Pyrus lindleyi Pyrus nivalis Pyrus pashia Pyrus persica Pyrus phaeocarpa Pyrus pyraster Pyrus pyrifolia Pyrus...
The true fruit of the cashew tree is a roughly kidney-shaped or boxing-glove shaped drupe that grows at the end of the pseudofruit. Actually, the drupe develops first on the tree, then the peduncle expands into the pseudofruit. Within the true fruit is a single seed, the cashew nut (technically a seed, not a nut, although the true fruit is classified as a nut by some botanists). The seed is surrounded by a double shell containing a caustic phenolic resin. Some people are allergic to cashews but cashews are a less frequent allergen than some other nuts. The peach is a typical drupe (stone fruit) In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. ...
A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. ...
Hazelnuts from the Common Hazel Chestnuts // Botanical definition A nut in botany is not a simple dry fruit with one seed (rarely two) in which the ovary wall or part of it becomes very hard (stony or woody) at maturity. ...
An allergen is any substance (antigen), most often eaten or inhaled, that is recognized by the immune system and causes an allergic reaction. ...
Uses
The cashew apple is used for its juicy but acidic pulp, which can be eaten raw or used in the production of jam, chutney, or various beverages. Depending on local customs, its juice is also processed and distilled into liquor or consumed diluted and sugared as a refreshing drink. In Goa, India, the cashew apple is the source of juicy pulp used to prepare fenny, a locally popular distilled liquor. The cashew apple contains much tannin and is very perishable. For this reason, in many parts of the world, the false fruit is just dumped after removal of the cashew nut. Cashew Apple Photo by Eric Bear Albrecht, July 11, 2004. ...
Cashew Apple Photo by Eric Bear Albrecht, July 11, 2004. ...
Jam from berries Jam is a type of fruit preserve made by boiling fruit with sugar to make an unfiltered jelly. ...
In Indian cuisine, a chutney (British spelling), chatni (Hindi transliteration) or catni (archaic transliteration) is a sweet-and-spicy condiment, originally from eastern India. ...
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Goa (गोवा in DevanÄgarÄ«) is Indias smallest state in terms of area and the fourth smallest in terms of population after Sikkim, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. ...
An Indian liquor made from either coconut or the juice of the cashew apple. ...
Tannins are astringent, bitter-tasting plant polyphenols that bind and precipitate proteins. ...
Cashew fruit contain a potent skin irritant toxin called urushiol (also found in poison-ivy) within the dark green nut shells. This must be removed when the seed inside is processed for consumption; this is done by shelling the nuts, a somewhat hazardous process, and exceedingly painful skin rashes (similar to poison-ivy rashes) among processing workers are frequent. In India, urushiol is traditionally used to control tamed elephants by its mahout (rider or keeper). The so-called 'raw cashews' available in health food shops have been cooked but not roasted or browned. A toxin, in a scientific context, is a biologically produced substance that causes injury to the health of a living thing on contact or absorption, typically by interacting with biological macromolecules such as enzymes and receptors. ...
For specific information on prevention and treatment of urushiol poisoning, see Urushiol-induced contact dermatitis. ...
Binomial name Toxicodendron radicans Poison ivy (Toxicodendron radicans), in the family Anacardiaceae, is a woody vine that is well-known for its ability to produce urushiol, a skin irritant which for most people will cause an agonizing, itching rash. ...
A mahout is a person who drives an elephant. ...
 cashew nut snack, roasted and salted Cashew seeds are a common ingredient in Asian cooking, for example in dishes such as "chicken with cashews". They can also be ground into a spread similar to peanut butter. Cashews have a very high oil content, and they are used in some other nut butters to add extra oil. In an off-the-shelf package of cashews found in the United States, a 30 gram serving contained 180 calories (750 kilojoules), 70% of which was fat. Download high resolution version (1024x768, 54 KB)cashew nut snack, roasted and salted ; 23. ...
Download high resolution version (1024x768, 54 KB)cashew nut snack, roasted and salted ; 23. ...
Asian cuisine is a term for the various cuisines of East and Southeast Asia and for fusion dishes based on combining them. ...
Binomial name Gallus gallus (Linnaeus, 1758) A chicken (Gallus gallus) is a type of domesticated bird which is often raised as a type of poultry. ...
Peanut Butter in jar Peanut butter is a food product usually consisting of roasted and ground peanuts, usually salted and sometimes sweetened. ...
Oil is a generic term for organic liquids that are not miscible with water. ...
The liquid contained within the shell casing of the cashew, known as Cashew Nutshell Liquid (CNSL) has a variety of industrial uses which were first developed in the 1930s. CNSL is fractionated in a process similar to the distillation of petroleum, and has two primary end products; solids that are pulverized and used as friction particle for brake linings, and an amber colored liquid that is aminated to create phenalkamine curing agents and resin modifiers. Phenalkamines are primarily used in epoxy coatings for the marine and flooring markets, as they have intense hydrophobic properties and are capable of remaining chemically active at low temperatures. // Events and trends The 1930s were spent struggling for a solution to the global depression. ...
Nodding donkey pumping an oil well near Sarnia, Ontario, 2001 Petroleum (from Greek petra – rock and oleum – oil), crude oil, sometimes colloquially called black gold, is a thick, dark brown or greenish liquid. ...
Ammonia Amines are organic compounds containing nitrogen as the key atom in the amine functional group. ...
Phenalkamines are curing agents that provide rapid cure at low temperatures (<40F), with a workable pot life. ...
Epoxy or polyepoxide is a thermosetting epoxide polymer that cures when mixed with a catalyzing agent or hardener. Most common epoxy resins are produced from a reaction between epichlorohydrin and bisphenol-A. The first commercial attempts to prepare resins from epichlorohydrin occurred in 1927 in the United States. ...
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