Cashew nuts are grown on trees, not underground, in the tree looks like a yellow-green dates, its fruit is divided into two parts, the upper half of the pseudo-fruit, is grown from the receptacle, the lower half is usually eaten cashews, the drupe is kidney-shaped, the two sides of the compressed, about 2-2.5 centimeters long, about 1.5 centimeters wide, ripe purplish-red, and the seeds are also kidney-shaped.

Cashew nuts are not long in the tree

Cashew nuts are long in the tree, not long in the ground, it looks like a tree, like a yellowish-green date, the shape and lotus, apple is somewhat similar to the fruit is divided into two parts, the upper half of the pseudo-fruit, which is made of receptacle growth, and the lower half is usually eaten cashew nuts.

Fruit characteristics of cashew nuts

Cashew nuts of the drupe is kidney-shaped, compressed on both sides, about 2-2.5 cm long, about 1.5 cm wide, the base of the fruit for the fleshy pear-shaped or gyroscopic shaped pseudo-fruit by the support, the length of 3-7 cm, the widest place there are 4-5 cm, ripe purple-red color, the seeds are also kidney-shaped.

Growth habit of cashew nuts

Cashew nuts are highly adaptable, belonging to the temperature-loving, strongly positive species, resistant to drought and poor soil, with a certain degree of resistance to wind, poor cold tolerance, the growth period requires higher temperatures, flowering and fruiting normal in the average monthly temperature of 23-30 degrees, 20 degrees below the slow growth.

Disease and Pest Control of Cashew Nuts

The common diseases and pests of cashew nuts include inflorescence blight, exhaustion disease, rheumatism, iron moths, and golden tortoiseshells, etc. In order to prevent infestation of diseases and pests, the bare roots of cashew trees need to be treated with 0.05% monocrotophos during the high temperature period of July-August every year or sprayed with stone sulfur synthropoxide for them.