{"id":515,"date":"2024-04-18T11:12:24","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T15:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/?page_id=515"},"modified":"2024-08-27T21:43:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T01:43:45","slug":"cashew","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/resources\/plantid\/fruits-and-nuts\/cashew\/","title":{"rendered":"Cashew"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\"><div class=\"container px-0\"><div class=\"row align-items-start\"><div class=\"col-12\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Plant Identification Learning Module:<br>Fruits &amp; Nuts<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"intro\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Cashew (<em>Anacardium occidentale<\/em>)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>The cashew is a small, tropical tree with a dense, spreading canopy. The\u00a0<em>evergreen<\/em>\u00a0leaves are\u00a0<em>simple<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>alternate<\/em>, arranged toward the end of the stems. Each leaf is six to seven inches long,\u00a0<em>obovate<\/em>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>oblong<\/em>\u00a0with a rounded or sometimes notched tip. Flowers are in\u00a0<em>panicles<\/em>; each flower, pale green at first then turning reddish, having five\u00a0<em>petals<\/em>. The red to yellow fruit is pear shaped. A smooth, thin-shelled, grayish-green, kidney-shaped appendage (containing the nut) is suspended from the bottom end. Great care must be exercised in handling raw nuts, since the shell contains thick, poisonous, caustic oil. The nut inside the shell is light tan or whitish and curved. Cashews grow only in very warm locations of extreme South Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/cashew_tree.jpg\" alt=\"Cashew tree\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/cashew_flower.jpg\" alt=\"Cashew flowers\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Lee, Biological Sciences, Florida International University<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/cashew_foliage.jpg\" alt=\"Cashew foliage and immature fruit\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><strong>(cc) 2006, Eric Gaba. This photo is licensed under&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/cashew_fruit.jpg\" alt=\"Fruit of cashew, with unshelled nut visible\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">UF\/IFAS<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/images\/plantid\/fruits\/cashew_shellednut.jpg\" alt=\"The shelled cashew nut\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Purdue<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":437,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-515","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/515\/revisions\/3885"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardeningsolutions.ifas.ufl.edu\/mastergardener\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}