Anacardium occidentale

Fructus Anacardii occidentalis, percipiendo apti.

Classis : Magnoliopsida
Ordo : Sapindales
Familia : Anacardiaceae
Genus : Anacardium
Species : A. occidentale

Anacardium occidentale
L.

Anacardium occidentale, vulgo cassuvium,^[1] est planta florens familiae Anacardiacearum. Arbor in Brasilia boreo-orientali orta est. Hodie crebre in tropicis colitur, ad esum "malorum" et "nucum" suorum.

Notae[recensere | fontem recensere]

↑ Kunth; vide fontes.

Bibliographia[recensere | fontem recensere]

Anacardium occidentale, ex Koehler, Medicinal-Plants (1887).

Fontes anteriores

1557/1558 : André Thevet: acaiou (cf. Wormium infra)
1567 : Garcias ab Orta; Carolus Clusius, interpr., Aromatum apud Indos nascentium historia lib. i cap. 30 ("caious").

"Adfertur interdum nucis genus Ulysiponem a Brasilianorum regione, quod Cajous vocant. Arbor est magna, foliis pyri: fructu oui anserini forma et magnitudine."

1586: Ioannes Lerius, Historia navigationis in Brasiliam

"arbor proceritate sorbi nostrae, cuius pomum Barbari acaiou nominant, amplitude & figura oui gallinacei" (pp. 155-156 2a ed.)

1597 : John Gerard, The Herball, or generall historie of plantes. Londinii: John Norton pp. 1360-1361 Of the fruit anacardium, and caious or caiocus"
1655 : Wormii Museum Wormianum, cap. 24, p. 192.

Fructus qui Acaiou Theveto, Caious Acostæ, Cajos Linscottano dicitur, ad Anacardos à quibusdam refertur, & quamvis à Christophoro Acostâ aliisque describatur, ac novissime accurate à Guilhelmo Pisone, & Georgio Margravio, summam tamen eorum, quæ ipsi proponuntur, brevibus expediemus.

Arbor, in quâ fructus hic crescit, Acajaiba Brasiliensibus dicitur...

Carolus Linnaeus, Species plantarum (1753) vol. 1 p. 383

1753 : Carolus Linnaeus, Species plantarum (Holmiae: impensis L. Salvii, 1753) vol. 1 p. 383 (Latine) (vide tabulam)
1825 : Carolus Sigismundus Kunth, Synopsis Plantarum [1], p. 145.

anacardium, Jacq. Linn.

Cassuvium, Rumph. Lam. Juss. Acajaiba, Marcgr.

Acajou, Pis. Acajuba, Gaertn.

Eruditio recentior

Fruit-bearing Forest Trees: technical notes. (FAO Forestry Paper, 34.) Romae: Food and Agriculture Organization, 1982. Textus
Kamirou Chabi Sika et al., "Indigenous Knowledge and Traditional Management of Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L.) Genetic Resources in Benin" in Journal of Experimental Biology and Agricultural Sciences vol. 1 no. 5 (2013)
Kamirou Chabi Sika et al., "Genetic Characterization of Cashew (Anacardium occidentale L) Cultivars from Benin" in Journal of Horticulture vol. 2 no. 3 (2015)
Aracelli de Sousa Leite et al., "Pharmacological properties of cashew (Anacardium occidentale)" in African Journal of Biotechnology vol. 15 no. 35 (2016) pp. 1855-1863