Anacardium Occidentale
Cashew Nut Tree
The cashew tree is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew apple and cashew seed (nut). Originally native to northeastern Brazil. The tree bears leathery, oval leaves, and clusters of small flowers that smell of mango when crushed and have pale green petals striped with dark pinky-red that turn entirely red. The fruit is not, in fact, a nut - it is a drupe (a seed in a hard coating surrounded by flesh). To grow Cashew Nut Trees temperatures should not drop below 10°C (50F). An average daytime temperature of around 25°C (77F) is ideal.
Contributed by @davenny
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Full sun to partial shade
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Occasional watering
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Not Frost hardy
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Light and free draining
Common name
Cashew Nut Tree
Latin name
Anacardium Occidentale
type
Evergreen tree
family
Anacardiaceae
ph
6.0 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral
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Light
Full sun to partial shade
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Frost
Not Frost hardy
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Soil
Light and free draining
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Water
Occasional watering
Plant & bloom calendar
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Best time to plant
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When the plant will bloom
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When to harvest
full grown dimensions
4.00 M
12.00 M
Anacardium Occidentale
The cashew tree is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew apple and cashew seed (nut). Originally native to northeastern Brazil. The tree bears leathery, oval leaves, and clusters of small flowers that smell of mango when crushed and have pale green petals striped with dark pinky-red that turn entirely red. The fruit is not, in fact, a nut - it is a drupe (a seed in a hard coating surrounded by flesh). To grow Cashew Nut Trees temperatures should not drop below 10°C (50F). An average daytime temperature of around 25°C (77F) is ideal.
Flowering
From Late Autumn TO Late Winter
Cashew trees flower and set fruit during the dry season - i.e. Winter
Planting
From Early Spring TO Late Winter
Cashew Nut Trees will only grow in temperatures above 10 deg. C (50 deg.F), and can be planted at any time, preferably in sandy, free-draining soil
Propagating by seed
From Early Spring TO Late Winter
Cashew Nuts can be grown from seed, but will not necessarily grow true to type (i.e. the fruit may be different from the parent). Sow the whole thing - not just the "nut" - in a pot, in sandy, moist, free-draining soil, and keep it well-watered, but not waterlogged. The first shoot should appear within a few days.
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