Cashew Family
Anacardiaceae
The Anacardiaceae, commonly known as the cashew family or sumac family, are a family of flowering plants, including about 83 genera with about 860 known species. Members of the Anacardiaceae bear fruits that are drupes and in some cases produce urushiol, an irritant. The Anacardiaceae include numerous genera, several of which are economically important, notably cashew (in the type genus Anacardium), mango, poison ivy, sumac, smoke tree, marula, yellow mombin, and cuachalalate. The genus Pistacia (which...
13 branches of this family, most-observed first
cashews, sumacs, and allies
subfamilyAnacardioideae
Tropical Plums
subfamilySpondiadoideae
Holigarna
genusHoligarna
Myracrodruon
genusMyracrodruon
Dobinea
genusDobinea
Orthopterygium
genusOrthopterygium
Allospondias
genusAllospondias
Attilaea
genusAttilaea
Fegimanra
genusFegimanra
Campylopetalum
genusCampylopetalum
Cardenasiodendron
genusCardenasiodendron
Poupartiopsis
genusPoupartiopsis
Tumultivenia
genusTumultivenia
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 48874.