occidentalis (Cashew Nut)
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Cashew nut (Anacardium occidentale) is an emerging environmental weed in the Northern Territory and northern Queensland, and is regarded as a potential environmental weed or "sleeper weed" in other parts of northern Australia.
Anacardium occidentale (Cashew Nut, Cashew Apple, Caju, Family: Anacardiaceae)
Anagyris foetida (Mediterranean Stinkbush, Stinking Bean Trefoil, Purging Trefoil , Family: Faboideae / Leguminosae / Papilionaceae) ...
The seed is soft like a cashew nut and has a slight flavour of pine nuts. This is a delicious seed and it makes very pleasant eating. It is a food that can easily be eaten in quantity and can be used as a staple food in the diet[K].
The resin content is responsible for the acid taste of mango and cashew fruits and of the oil (sometimes extracted) in pistachio and cashew nuts.
Anacardium occidentale. Cashew Nut tree. Not common, some were once planted in a rural area of St. David's known as Cashew City. A few years ago, one was planted in the Bermuda Perfumery Gardens.
Nombres relacionados: Anacardiaceae (familia), Anacardium orientale (similar), Anacardo (castellano), Cajueiro (gallego y/o portugués), Cashew (inglés), Cashew Nut (inglés), Cassavium pomiferum (sinónimo), Cassuvium pomiferum (similar), Kaju (hindi), ...
Its traditional use for diabetes has been supported by laboratory tests in which extracts of the bark have been shown to lower insulin resistance in mice. The wood has also been said to relieve skin irritations caused by handling cashew nuts ...
Note that an analogous name in Armenian means not nutmeg but coconut; in modern English, Indian nut is sometimes used to denote a Central Asian variety of pine nuts, while the same name in German mostly refers to cashew nuts, ...
 See also: Cashew, Evergreen, May, Ivy, Apple
  
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