Anacardium occidentale
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Description: Information on the cashew including its uses, folk medicine, toxicity, chemistry, ecology and cultivation.
Source: James A. Duke. 1983. Handbook of Energy Crops. unpublished. Many parts of the cashew plant are used. The cashew "apple," the enlarged fully ripe, fruit may be eaten raw, or preserved as jam or sweetmeat. The juice is made into a beverage (Brazil cajuado) or fermented into a wine. Fruits or seeds of the cashew are consumed whole, roasted, shelled and salted, in Madeira wine, or mixed in chocolates. Shelling the roasted fruits yields the cashew nut of commerce. Seeds yield about 45% of a pale yellow, bland, edible oil, resembling almond oil. From the shells or hulls is extracted a black, acrid, powerful vesicant oil, used as a preservative and water-proofing agent in insulating varnishes, in manufacture of typewriter rolls, in oil- and acid-proof cements and tiles, in brake-linings, as an excellent lubricant in magneto armatures in airplanes, and for termite proofing timbers. Timber is used in furniture making, boat building, packing cases and in the production of charcoal. Bark used in tanning. Stems exude a clear gum, Cashawa gum, used in pharmaceuticals and as substitute for gum arabic. Juice turns black on exposure to air and provides an indelible ink. Along the coast of Orissa, shelter belts and wind breaks, planted to stabilize sand dunes and protect the adjacent fertile agricultural land from drifting sand, have yielded economic cashew crops 5 years after planting (Patro and Behera, 1979).
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| Page title: | Anacardium occidentale |
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| IP-address: | 128.210.161.215 |
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| NS | Name Servers: NS.PURDUE.EDU 128.210.11.5 NS1.RICE.EDU |
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| Date | activated: 24-Apr-1985 last updated: 11-Nov-2010 expires: 31-Jul-2014 |