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The cashew tree (''Anacardium occidentale'') is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple. It can grow as high as , but the dwarf cashew, growing up to , has proved more profitable, with earlier maturity and higher yields. The cashew seed, often simply called a cashew, is widely consumed. It is eaten on its own, used in recipes, or processed into cashew cheese or cashew butter. The cashew apple is a light reddish to yellow fruit, whose pulp can be processed into a sweet, astringent fruit drink or distilled into liquor. The shell of the cashew seed yields derivatives that can be used in many applications from lubricants to paints, and other parts of the tree have traditionally been used for snake-bites and other folk remedies. Originally native to northeastern Brazil, the tree is now widely cultivated in Vietnam, Nigeria and India as major production countries.〔 == Etymology == Its English name derives from the Portuguese for the fruit of the cashew tree ''caju'' (Portuguese pronunciation: ()), which itself is derived from the indigenous Tupian name ''acajú'', literally meaning "nut that produces itself".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Caju, identidade tropical que exala saúde — Embrapa )〕 The name Anacardium, originally from the Greek, refers to the unusual location of the seed outside the core or heart of the fruit (''ana'' means "without" and ''-cardium'' means "heart"). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「cashew」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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