Anacardium
Sign in to saveAnacardium, the cashews, are a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. The best known species is Anacardium occidentale, which is commercially cultivated for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderSapindales
- FamilyAnacardiaceae
Native toBolivia, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana
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Research
1,239 papers- Anacardium Plants: Chemical,Nutritional Composition and Biotechnological Applications.Biomolecules · 2019
- Antioxidant, Antimicrobial, and Anticancer Effects of Anacardium Plants: An Ethnopharmacological Perspective.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2020
- Anacardium occidentale L. (cajueiro) in the healing of skin wounds: an experimental study in rats.Acta cirurgica brasileira · 2023
- Cashew (Anacardium occidentale) Nut-Shell Liquid as Antioxidant in Bulk Soybean Oil.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022
- Antimalarial Activity of Anacardium occidentale Leaf Extracts Against Plasmodium falciparum Transketolase (PfTK).Acta parasitologica · 2023
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Anacardiaceae
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- Anacardium occidentale - Köhler–s Medizinal-Pflanzen-010.jpg
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Article
4 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- Taxonomy
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Anacardium, the cashews, are a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas. The best known species is Anacardium occidentale, which is commercially cultivated for its cashew nuts and cashew apples.
==Etymology== The name Anacardium, originally from the Greek, actually refers to the nut, core or heart of the fruit, which is outwardly located (ana means "upwards" and -cardium means "heart").