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Anacardiaceae (the cashew family) is a family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s bearing fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
s that are drupe
Drupe

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovary....
s and in some cases producing urushiol
Urushiol

Urushiol is an organic oil toxin found in plants of the Linnaean taxonomy Anacardiaceae, especially Toxicodendron spp. . It causes an allergic skin rash on contact, known as urushiol-induced contact dermatitis....
, an irritant
Irritation

Irritation or exacerbation, in biology and physiology, is a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage. A stimulus or agent which induces the state of irritation is an irritant....
. Its 82 genera include several of economic importance. Notable plants in this family include cashew
Cashew

The cashew is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil. Its English language name derives from the Portuguese language name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi language name, acaj?....
 (in the type genus Anacardium
Anacardium

Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.Selected species:*Anacardium corymbosum...
), mango
Mango

Mangoes belong to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae....
, poison ivy, sumac
Sumac

Sumac is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice....
, smoke tree
Smoke tree

Smoketree or Smoke bush is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, closely related to the sumacs ....
, and pistachio
Pistachio

The pistachio is a small tree native to mountainous regions of Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey and western Afghanistan, that produces an important nut #Culinary definition and uses....
. Including pistachio, the genus Pistacia
Pistacia

Pistacia is a genus of ten species in the family Anacardiaceae, native to the Canary Islands, northwest Africa, southern Europe, central and eastern Asia, and North America ....
 sometimes is placed in its own family, Pistaciaceae.








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Anacardiaceae (the cashew family) is a family
Family (biology)

In biological classification, family is a taxonomic rank. Exact details of formal nomenclature depend on the Nomenclature Codes which applies....
 of flowering plant
Flowering plant

The flowering plants or angiosperms are the most widespread group of Embryophytes. The flowering plants and the gymnosperms are the only extant groups of Spermatophyte....
s bearing fruit
Fruit

The term fruit has different meanings dependent on context, and the term is not synonymous in food preparation and biology. In botany, which is the scientific study of plants, fruits are the ripened Ovary of flowering plants....
s that are drupe
Drupe

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovary....
s and in some cases producing urushiol
Urushiol

Urushiol is an organic oil toxin found in plants of the Linnaean taxonomy Anacardiaceae, especially Toxicodendron spp. . It causes an allergic skin rash on contact, known as urushiol-induced contact dermatitis....
, an irritant
Irritation

Irritation or exacerbation, in biology and physiology, is a state of inflammation or painful reaction to allergy or cell-lining damage. A stimulus or agent which induces the state of irritation is an irritant....
. Its 82 genera include several of economic importance. Notable plants in this family include cashew
Cashew

The cashew is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil. Its English language name derives from the Portuguese language name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi language name, acaj?....
 (in the type genus Anacardium
Anacardium

Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.Selected species:*Anacardium corymbosum...
), mango
Mango

Mangoes belong to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae....
, poison ivy, sumac
Sumac

Sumac is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice....
, smoke tree
Smoke tree

Smoketree or Smoke bush is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, closely related to the sumacs ....
, and pistachio
Pistachio

The pistachio is a small tree native to mountainous regions of Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey and western Afghanistan, that produces an important nut #Culinary definition and uses....
. Including pistachio, the genus Pistacia
Pistacia

Pistacia is a genus of ten species in the family Anacardiaceae, native to the Canary Islands, northwest Africa, southern Europe, central and eastern Asia, and North America ....
 sometimes is placed in its own family, Pistaciaceae.

Actinocheita
Anacardium
Anacardium

Anacardium is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, native to tropical regions of the Americas.Selected species:*Anacardium corymbosum...
 (cashew
Cashew

The cashew is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The plant is native to northeastern Brazil. Its English language name derives from the Portuguese language name for the fruit of the cashew tree, caju, which in turn derives from the indigenous Tupi language name, acaj?....
)
Androtium
Antrocaryon
Apterokarpos
Astronium
Astronium

Astronium is a plant genus in the family Anacardiaceae.Selected species*Astronium fraxinifolium - Goncalo alves*Astronium graveolens - Goncalo alves...
 (=Myracrodruon)
Baronia
Bonetiella
Bouea
Buchanania
Buchanania

Buchanania is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Buchanania arborescens* Buchanania barberi* ''Buchanania lanceolata...

Campnosperma
Campnosperma

Campnosperma is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Campnosperma seychellarum, Marchand* Campnosperma zeylanicum, Thwaites...

Cardenasiodendron
Choerospondias
Comocladia
Cotinus (smoke tree
Smoke tree

Smoketree or Smoke bush is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae, closely related to the sumacs ....
)
Cyrtocarpa
Dracontomelon
Dracontomelon

Dracontomelon is a genus of flowering plants in the family Anacardiaceae.The most commonly eaten species is Dracontomelon duperreanum, which produces an edible fruit that is eaten in Cambodia and Vietnam....

Drimycarpus
 Ebandoua
Euleria
Euroschinus
Euroschinus

Euroschinus is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Euroschinus aoupiniensis, Hoff - New Caledonia* Euroschinus falcata - Eastern Australia...

Faguetia
Fegimanra
Gluta
Gluta

Gluta is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Gluta capituliflora, Ding Hou* Gluta curtisii, Ding Hou* Gluta lanceolata, Ridley...

Haematostaphis
Haplorhus
Haplorhus

Haplorhus is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Haplorhus peruviana, Engler...

Harpephyllum
Heeria
Holigarna
Koordersiodendron
Lannea
Lannea

Lannea is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Lannea transulta, A.R. Smith...

Laurophyllus
Lithraea
Lithraea

Lithraea is a genus of flowering plants in the soapberry family Anacardiaceae....

Loxopterigium
Loxostylis
Malosma
Malosma

Malosma is a plant genus for which only a single species, Malosma laurina, is proposed. Common names for the species include laurel sumac and lentisco ....

Mangifera (mango
Mango

Mangoes belong to the genus Mangifera, consisting of numerous species of tropical fruiting trees in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae....
)
 Mauria
Mauria

Mauria is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Mauria killipii, F. Barkley* Mauria membranifolia, Barfod & Holm-Niels....

Melanochyla
Melanochyla

Melanochyla is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Melanochyla fasciculiflora, Kochummen* Melanochyla longipetiolata, Kochummen...

Metopium
Micronychia
Montagueia
Mosquitoxylum
Nothopegia
Nothopegia

Nothopegia is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include* Nothopegia aureo-fulva, Beddome ex Hook.f.* Nothopegia castanaefolia, Ding Hou...

Ochoterenaea
Operculicarya
Operculicarya

Operculicarya is a plant genus of the family Anacardiaceae....

Ozoroa
Ozoroa

Ozoroa is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Ozoroa namaquensis, Von Teichman & A.E.van Wyk...

Pachycormus
Pachycormus (plant)

Pachycormus is a genus of flowering plants in the Anacardiaceae.Species include:*Pachycormus discolor - elephant treeGallery...

Parishia
Pegia
Pentaspadon
Pentaspadon

Pentaspadon is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Pentaspadon motleyi, Joseph Dalton Hooker...

Pistacia
Pistacia

Pistacia is a genus of ten species in the family Anacardiaceae, native to the Canary Islands, northwest Africa, southern Europe, central and eastern Asia, and North America ....
 (pistachio
Pistachio

The pistachio is a small tree native to mountainous regions of Iran, Turkmenistan, Turkey and western Afghanistan, that produces an important nut #Culinary definition and uses....
)
Pleiogynium
Poupartia
Poupartia

Poupartia is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Poupartia borbonica, Gmelin* Poupartia pubescens, Engl....

Protorhus
 Pseudoprotorhus
Pseudosmodingium
Pseudospondias
Rhodosphaera
Rhus (sumac
Sumac

Sumac is any one of approximately 250 species of flowering plants in the genus Rhus and related genera, in the family Anacardiaceae. The dried berries of some species are ground to produce a tangy purple spice....
)
Schinopsis
Schinopsis

Schinopsis is a genus of South American trees in the family Anacardiaceae. The species within this genus inhabit different regions of the Gran Chaco ecoregion including parts of northern Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay....

Schinus
Schinus

Schinus is a genus of trees and tall shrubs in the family Anacardiaceae comprising the pepper trees, most notably Schinus molle, the Peruvian Pepper tree, and Schinus terebinthifolius, the Brazilian Pepper tree or Christmasberry the source of the spice commonly known as pink peppercorns....
 (peppertree)
Sclerocarya
Sclerocarya

Sclerocarya is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Sclerocarya gillettii, Kokwaro* Sclerocarya birrea, Marula...

Semecarpus
Semecarpus

Semecarpus is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Semecarpus acuminata, Thwaites* Semecarpus anacardium...

Smodingium
Solenocarpus
Sorindeia
Sorindeia

Sorindeia is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Sorindeia calantha, Mildbr....

Spondias
Spondias

Spondias or Makok is a genus of flowering plants of the family Anacardiaceae. The genus consists of 17 described species, 7 of which are native to the Neotropics and about 10 are native to tropical Asia....

Swintonia
Swintonia

Swintonia is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae. It contains the following species :* Swintonia robinsonii, Ridley* Swintonia spicifera, William Jackson Hooker f....

Tapirira
Tapirira

Tapirira is a genus of flowering plants in the soapberry family Anacardiaceae.Selected species:*Tapirira benthanniana*Tapirira chimalapana...

Thyrsodium
Thyrsodium

Thyrsodium is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Thyrsodium herrerense, Encarnacion...

Toxicodendron
Toxicodendron

Toxicodendron is a genus of woody trees, shrubs and vines in the Anacardiaceae or Sumac Family, including poison ivy, poison oak, and the lacquer tree....
 (poison-ivy)
Trichoscypha
Trichoscypha

Trichoscypha is a genus of plant in family Anacardiaceae.Species include:* Trichoscypha bijuga, Heinrich Gustav Adolf Engler* Trichoscypha cavalliensis, Aubrev. & Pellegr....



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