Pictures of Flowers Cashew Pictures and Cashew Kind

Cashew is a tree in the flowering plant family that is widely grown in the tropical regions for its cashew nuts and cashew apples. Cashew is native to Central America in southeastern Brazil. Cashew is a small evergreen tree that can grow to about 10-12 meter height. Its trunk is short and often irregularly shaped. Leaves are large, spirally arranged, leathery and green, measuring about 4-6 inches long and 4 inches wide. Flowers grow in a panicle up to 26 cm long, each flower being small, pale green at first and then turning reddish with five slender and acute petals measuring 7-15mm long.

Cashew produces an oval or pear shaped fruit. It is an accessory fruit or a false fruit that develops from the receptacle of the flower. Better known as cashew apple, the fruit ripens into a pale yellow and/or red structure about 5-10 cm long. Fruits are edible and have a strong sweet smell and sweet taste. Pulp of the cashew apple is juicy but the skin is fragile and thus cannot be transported without damaging the fruit. A true fruit of cashew is a kidney or bean shaped fruit that grows at the end of the false fruit – cashew apple. Within this true fruit lies the seed or cashew nut. In botanical sense, the cashew nut is a seed.

Pictures of Flowers Cashew Pictures and Cashew Kind

Pictures of Flowers Cashew Pictures and Cashew Kind

Pictures of Flowers Cashew Pictures and Cashew Kind

Pictures of Flowers Cashew Pictures and Cashew Kind

Pictures of Flowers Cashew Pictures and Cashew Kind

Pictures of Flowers Cashew Pictures and Cashew Kind