Cashews

Painted tree cashews are evergreen trees. Tropical fruit trees. Originally from the West Indies and north-eastern Brazil, it spread to India and South-East Asia and then to Africa. Tropical countries are now mostly planted, with Mozambique, India, Tanzania and Kenya producing the most. In 1943, it was introduced in Sanya City, Hainan Province, China, and was also planted in Yunnan and western Guangdong after the 1950s. The tree is 8 to 12 meters high, the canopy is open, and the canopy is about 8 meters. Single-leaf mutual birth, leather, long or inverted eggs, 10 to 20 cm long. Conical flower sequence top, flower small, yellow pink, hybrid. Nuts are divided into two parts: puffy meaty flower tray, ripe orange-red, 2.5 to 8.5 cm long, soft and juicy;

high temperature, sensitive to low temperature, the average monthly temperature is 15 degrees C when the growth is slow, 3 to 5 degrees C low temperature lasts for several days, that is, frostbite. Strong adaptability to soil. Flowering from March to April and ripening from May to June. Mainly with seeds breeding, good varieties can be used high-altitude pressure bar or graft breeding. Planting the initial plant line distance is generally 3×4 meters, after the period of logging per acre to leave 16 to 25 plants is appropriate. The results will begin 2 years after planting. Hainan Province 30 years of large trees can harvest more than 3000 fruit. Cashew nuts contain 45% fat,
protein
20%, can be fried. Fruit shells can be squeezed for advanced paint or as insulation. The immature fruit shell contains toxicity and stimulates the skin. The milk of the stem can be used as an adhesive. Meaty flower tray can be fresh food or juice as a beverage, sweet in the taste acid, conducive to urine, edema treatment effect.