CASHEW APPLES

These pictures of the cashew apples (Anacardium occidentale) were sent to me by my friend Roziah.  She took them at her village.  Actually I did not know that they were referred to as apples until I did some checking with Wikipedia.

I found out that the cashew tree is a tropical evergreen that produces the cashew nut and the cashew apple. It can grow as high as 14 metres (46 ft), but the dwarf cashew, growing up to 6 metres (20 ft), has proved more profitable, with earlier maturity and higher yields.
The cashew nut is served as a snack or used in recipes, like other nuts, although it is actually a seed. The cashew apple is a fruit, whose pulp can be processed into a sweet,astringent fruit drink or distilled into liqueur.
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