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Anacardium excelsum (Wild Cashew)

Synonyms: Anacardia rhinocarpa; Anacardium rhinocarpus; Rhinocarpus excelsa (homotypic)

Wikipedia Abstract

Anacardium excelsum (wild cashew or espavé) is a tree in the flowering plant family Anacardiaceae. The tree is common in the tropical and subtropical dry broadleaf forests of Pacific and Atlantic watersheds of Central and South America, extending as far north as Guatemala and south into Ecuador.
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Attributes

Janka Hardness [1]  470 lbf (213 kgf) Very Soft
Specific Gravity [2]  0.41

Predators

Consumers

Shelter for 
Ara macao (Scarlet Macaw)[9]

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Citations

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♦ 1Wood Janka Hardness Scale/Chart J W Morlan's Unique Wood Gifts
♦ 2Wood Technology Transfer Fact Sheets U.S. Department of Agriculture - Forest Service
♦ 3FORAGING ECOLOGY OF PARROTS IN A MODIFIED LANDSCAPE: SEASONAL TRENDS AND INTRODUCED SPECIES, GREG D. MATUZAK, M. BERNADETTE BEZY, AND DONALD J. BRIGHTSMITH, The Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120(2):353–365, 2008
♦ 4Artibeus jamaicensis, Jorge Ortega and Iván Castro-Arellano, MAMMALIAN SPECIES No. 662, pp. 1–9 (2001)
♦ 5Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 6Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 7Proposed Nutritional Importance of Plant Exudates in the Diet of the Panamanian Tamarin, Saguinus oedipus geoffroyi, Paul A. Garber, International Journal of Primatology, Vol 5, No. 1, 1984
♦ 8Proyecto Tití
♦ 9Current Status and Conservation of the Scarlet Macaw (Ara macao) in the Osa Conservation Area (ACOSA), Costa Rica, Fiona Dear, Christopher Vaughan and Adrián Morales Polanco, Research Journal of the Costa Rican Distance Education University Vol. 2(1): 7-21, June, 2010
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0