Taxon:
Anacardium occidentale L.
Summary
Place of publication:
Sp. pl. 1:383. 1753
Verified:
11/24/1986
ARS Systematic Botanists.
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
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Common names
English
cashew – cashewnut – Dutch
acajoeboom – westindische Nierenboom – French
anacardier – cajou – German
Acajubaum – Kaschubaum – Nierenbaum – Portuguese
cajú – cajueiro – Spanish
anacardo – cajuil – marañón – merey – Swedish
cashew – Transcribed Chinese
yao guo –
Distribution
order_code | Status | Continent | Subcontinent | Country | State | Note |
1 | Native | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | French Guiana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Guyana | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Suriname | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Northern South America | Venezuela | | |
1 | Native | Southern America | Western South America | Colombia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | East Tropical Africa | Tanzania | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Angola | | |
2 | Cultivated | Africa | South Tropical Africa | Mozambique | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | China | China | | s. |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Temperate | Eastern Asia | Taiwan | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | India | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indian Subcontinent | Sri Lanka | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Myanmar | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Indo-China | Thailand | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Indonesia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Malaysia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Asia-Tropical | Malesia | Philippines | | |
2 | Cultivated | Australasia | Australia | Australia | | |
2 | Cultivated | Southern America | Brazil | Brazil | | |
Native
Southern America
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NORTHERN SOUTH AMERICA:
French Guiana, Guyana, Suriname, Venezuela
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BRAZIL:
Brazil
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WESTERN SOUTH AMERICA:
Colombia
Cultivated
Africa
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EAST TROPICAL AFRICA:
Tanzania
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SOUTH TROPICAL AFRICA:
Angola, Mozambique
Asia-Temperate
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CHINA:
China (s.)
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EASTERN ASIA:
Taiwan
Asia-Tropical
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INDIAN SUBCONTINENT:
India, Sri Lanka
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INDO-CHINA:
Myanmar, Thailand
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MALESIA:
Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines
Australasia
Southern America
Economic Uses
Usage | Type | Note | Reference |
Human food | beverage base | | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |
Human food | fruit | "fruit" actually from swollen pedicel | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |
Human food | nut | | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |
Materials | beads | | Smith, R. J. Botanical beads of the world (on-line resource). URL: http://www.botanicalbeads.com/BBB_page_108.html |
Materials | gum/resin | | Mabberley, D. J. 1997. The plant-book: a portable dictionary of the vascular plants, ed. 2 |
Materials | lipids | | Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, ed. 2 |
Medicines | folklore | | Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs |
Medicines | folklore | | McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2 American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, Maryland. |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada. Note: poisonous |
Vertebrate poisons | mammals | | Lampe, K. F. & M. A. McCann. 1985. AMA handbook of poisonous and injurious plants Note: poisonous |