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Family

Distribution

North America distribution zone

Height

Foliage

Ecology

Use

Synonym

English name

French name

Spanish name

Other name

Trade name

Anacardium excelsum (Bertero & Balb. ex Kunth) Skeels

Anacardiaceae

SE North America (Nicaragua to Panama) South America (tropics)

L[G]

E[D]

hel hyg mes acid->neut

fd (roasted nuts) fr fw ma pl pp sa ti (boxes, bridge boards, cabinet work, carpentry, concrete forms, crates, dugout canoes, finishing, fence posts, furniture, interior and exterior construction, interior part of furniture, interior trim and millwork, ornamental boxes, plywood corestock, rough construction, utensils, veneer, wrapping) tx (macerate bark used as a barbasco for catching fish, pollen produces a rash or hayfever-like allergy)

Anacardium rhinocarpus DC. Rhinocarpus excelsa Bertero & Balb. ex Kunth

Guiana cashew; wild cashew (Panama); wild-cashew (West Indies)

anacardier de Guyane

aspavé (Colombia); caracoli (Colombia, Venezuela); espave (Panama); espavé (Honduras, Panama); espavé amarillo, espavé rosado (Costa Rica); espavel (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua); ispavé, ispavel, jurajamba (Colombia); marañon (Ecuador); marañón de montaña (Honduras); merey (Colombia); mija, mijagua (Venezuela); mijao (Guyana, Venezuela)

assú (portuguese, Brazil); caju assu; cajú (Brazil); cájú de matta (portuguese, Brazil)

espave

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Latin name	Anacardium excelsum (Bertero & Balb. ex Kunth) Skeels
Family	Anacardiaceae
Distribution	SE North America (Nicaragua to Panama) South America (tropics)
North America distribution zone	SE
Height	L[G]
Foliage	E[D]
Ecology	hel hyg mes acid->neut
Use	fd (roasted nuts) fr fw ma pl pp sa ti (boxes, bridge boards, cabinet work, carpentry, concrete forms, crates, dugout canoes, finishing, fence posts, furniture, interior and exterior construction, interior part of furniture, interior trim and millwork, ornamental boxes, plywood corestock, rough construction, utensils, veneer, wrapping) tx (macerate bark used as a barbasco for catching fish, pollen produces a rash or hayfever-like allergy)
Synonym	Anacardium rhinocarpus DC. Rhinocarpus excelsa Bertero & Balb. ex Kunth
English name	Guiana cashew; wild cashew (Panama); wild-cashew (West Indies)
French name	anacardier de Guyane
Spanish name	aspavé (Colombia); caracoli (Colombia, Venezuela); espave (Panama); espavé (Honduras, Panama); espavé amarillo, espavé rosado (Costa Rica); espavel (Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua); ispavé, ispavel, jurajamba (Colombia); marañon (Ecuador); marañón de montaña (Honduras); merey (Colombia); mija, mijagua (Venezuela); mijao (Guyana, Venezuela)
Other name	assú (portuguese, Brazil); caju assu; cajú (Brazil); cájú de matta (portuguese, Brazil)
Trade name	espave