Cashew is easily grown from seed offered by the GreenDealer Exotic Seeds selection of Fruit and Nuts and Rainforest Plants.

 
 

 

The seeds of Cashew hang from the fruit on the bottom outside. The seeds have a bitter poisonous coating (care should be taken in handling these seeds) which are discarded by monkeys in favor of the pulpous, very juicy pineapple-peach-apple tasting fruit. The monkeys are rewarded with the delicious fruit for dispersing the seeds.

Cashew
Anacardium occidentale

Cashew Nut is a very dignified plant. The attractive leaves are rich-looking purplish green and extremely pleasing to the eye. The comely, richly-scentedf flowers have yellow and pink petals.

These photographs were taken in the provence of Alajuela in northern Costa Rica in June, 1999.

Winter hardy in zones 9-11 or grow as houseplant or greenhouse specimen elsewhere.


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