Common names (English):

Cashew-nut tree, Cashew Apple, Caju

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Tree

Distribution:

Native of South America.

Use: Edible

Description:

Evergreen trees, to 15 m high. Leaves simple, alternate, obovate. Flowers yellow, streaked with pink, in terminal bracteate panicles. Petals 5. Stamens 8-10. Fruit a reniform nut, 2-3 cm, grey, seated on a large pyriform fleshy body formed of enlarged disc and top of the pedicel.