Fresh cashew ‘fruit’ has a very short shelf-life so is used as soon as it has fallen from the tree. In some parts of the world, cashew ‘fruit’ are turned into various alcoholic drinks.

Narrator: Each fruit grows just one shelled ... in Sri Lanka. The trees are a member of the same family as poison ivy, and like poison ivy, cashew plants contain a toxin called urushiol.

is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed and the cashew apple accessory fruit. The tree can grow as high as 14 m (46 ft), but the dwarf cultivars, growing up to 6 m (20 ft ...

Cashew, also known as Anacardium occidentale L., was introduced into India by the Portuguese. They used cashew farming to protect coastal regions against soil erosion in the 16th century.

Cashew nuts are Guinea ... First we go to the trees, look for the cashews, carry them back, separate the nuts from the fruit - then you start pounding the fruit. "Sometimes we pound to fill ...