Anacardium excelsum

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Anacardium excelsum

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Anacardium rhinocarpus DC. WILD CASHEW. South America. This is a noble tree of Columbia and British Guiana, where it is called wild cashew. It has pleasant, edible fruits like the cashew. In Panama, according to Seemann, the tree is called espave, in New Granada caracoli. [1]

  1. Black, A. A. Treas. Bot. 2:973. 1870. (Rhinocarpus)
Sturtevant, Notes on edible plants, 1919.


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