Today we had lunch at our favourite Thai restaurant. After our meal Anna brought out some cashew apples for us to try. She also gave me some to take home. They were attached to the stem and looked beautiful. Unfortunately the stems are very fragile and they all fell off before I got them home.
@narayani@lyndamcg@gijsje@happysnaps@mittens@ludwigsdiana@mv_wolfie@lynnz@ninaganci@joansmor@koalagardens@genealogygenie@haskar@taffy@carole_sandford@pyrrhula They have a lovely shape and colour. They are not an actual apple.I found this explanation on the internet. This pseudofruit (or false fruit) is a by-product of the cashew nut industry. The cashew tree, Anacardium occidentale L., is called marañon in most Spanish-speaking countries, but merey in Venezuela; and caju or cajueiro in Portuguese. It is generally bushy, low-branched and spreading; may reach 35 ft (10.6 m) in height and width. Its leaves, mainly in terminal clusters, are oblong-oval or obovate, 4 to 8 in (10-20 cm) long and 2 to 4 in (5-10 cm) wide, and leathery. Yellowish-pink, 5-petalled flowers are borne in 6 to 10-in (15-25 cm) terminal panicles of mixed male, female and bisexual. The true fruit of the tree is the cashew nut resembling a miniature boxing-glove; consisting of a double shell containing a caustic phenolic resin in honeycomb-like cells, enclosing the edible kidney-shaped kernel. An interesting feature of the cashew is that the nut develops first and when it is full-grown but not yet ripe, its peduncle or, more technically, receptacle, fills out, becomes plump, fleshy, pear-shaped or rhomboid-to-ovate, 2 to 4 1/2 in (5-11.25 cm) in length, with waxy, yellow, red, or red-and-yellow skin and spongy, fibrous, very juicy, astringent, acid to subacid, yellow pulp. Thus is formed the conspicuous, so-called cashew apple. @radiogirl
Great capture