Monographs Details:
Authority:
Popenoe, Wilson. 1924. Economic fruit-bearing plants of Ecuador. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-ix, 101-134. pl. 34-49.
Popenoe, Wilson. 1924. Economic fruit-bearing plants of Ecuador. Contr. U. S. Natl. Herb. 24: i-ix, 101-134. pl. 34-49.
Family:
Anacardiaceae
Anacardiaceae
Description:
Description - The tree is somewhat spreading in habit, and reaches a height of 6 to 9 meters. The young growth has an attractive reddish color; the leaves are oblong, 10 to 15 cm. in length; the flowers email, pinkish, and produced in large terminal racemes. The fruit (usually termed the cashew nut) is kidney-shaped, about 2.5 cm. long, and attached to the end of the fleshy peduncle (termed cashew apple), which is 5 to 7.5 cm. long, yellow or bright red in color, very juicy, and of strongly aromatic odor and flavor.
Uses - Both the fleshy peduncle and the nut or true fruit are eaten, the latter only after roasting to remove the caustic and volatile oil which it contains.
Description - The tree is somewhat spreading in habit, and reaches a height of 6 to 9 meters. The young growth has an attractive reddish color; the leaves are oblong, 10 to 15 cm. in length; the flowers email, pinkish, and produced in large terminal racemes. The fruit (usually termed the cashew nut) is kidney-shaped, about 2.5 cm. long, and attached to the end of the fleshy peduncle (termed cashew apple), which is 5 to 7.5 cm. long, yellow or bright red in color, very juicy, and of strongly aromatic odor and flavor.
Uses - Both the fleshy peduncle and the nut or true fruit are eaten, the latter only after roasting to remove the caustic and volatile oil which it contains.
Common Names:
marañón, cashew
marañón, cashew