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Although a native of the Americas, cashews are mostly known as being of Indian origin, and these days Vietnamese, rather than Brazilian, the cashews’ homeland country. The tree also grows in Mozambique, Tanzania, Kenya, and Nigeria .
Both the Portuguese and the Spanish carried the trees to their colonies during the 16th century. The Portuguese to Goa, India and the Spanish to the Philippines. Interestingly, it grows on the bottom of a pear-shaped fruit called the “cashew – apple”, developing, before the apple, hanging there like an after thought.