- published: 16 Jul 2015
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The cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) is a tropical evergreen tree that produces the cashew seed 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 seed, often simply called a cashew, is widely consumed. It is eaten on its own, used in recipes, or processed into cashew cheese or cashew butter. The cashew apple is a light reddish to yellow fruit, whose pulp can be processed into a sweet, astringent fruit drink or distilled into liquor.
The shell of the cashew seed yields derivatives that can be used in many applications from lubricants to paints, and other parts of the tree have traditionally been used for snake-bites and other folk remedies.
Originally native to northeastern Brazil, the tree is now widely cultivated in Vietnam, Nigeria and India as major production countries.
Its English name derives from the Portuguese name for the fruit of the cashew tree caju (Portuguese pronunciation: [kaˈʒu]), which itself is derived from the indigenous Tupian name acajú, literally meaning "nut that produces itself". The name Anacardium, originally from the Greek, refers to the unusual location of the seed outside the core or heart of the fruit (ana means "without" and -cardium means "heart").
I keep hearin' my name but I turn away
Cause I know it comes from you
And everyday that I try to blank
It's the one think I can't proove
You know that I love you more
Than every fish in the sea
So send some bright stars
And shine them down
Down on me lord
CHORUS:
You know that I, you know that I
I need you more
You know that we have something
When you get down to the core
But I just can't keep waking up
Wondering if I'm good enough
I think I'll close my window tonight
Everyone says go with your heart
Never with your mind
But every time I choose my heart
The one thing that I find
Is an ocean full of pain
Always loss and never gain
How do I put up with this sadness?
I can't take much more, no.
CHORUS
You know that I love you more
Then every fish in the sea
Send some bright stars and shine them down
Down on me lord