CASHEW The cashew is a tree in the family Anacardiaceae. Originally native to Northeast Brazil,


The fruit of the cashew tree is an accessory fruit (sometimes called a pseudocarp or false fruit). What appears to be the fruit is an oval or pear-shaped structure, a hypocarpium, that develops from the pedicel and the receptacle of the cashew flower.


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