Catesby, Mark. Appendix Pl. 9, The Cushew-Tree

Mark Catesby (1638 - 1749)Etching with hand color, paper dimensions: approximately 19 x 14 inchesFrom the Appendix (Part 11) to Catesby's Natural History of Carolina, Florida & the Bahama IslandsLondon: 1747 - 1771 Currently known as the cashew, Anacardium occidentale*, Catesby described this subjects as follows: Pomifera, seu potius prunifera Indiea, nuce viniformi summo pomo innascente, Cajous  vel Acajous dicta.Raii Hist. Cat. Jam.  The CUSHEW TREE. The trunks of some of these trees are a foot and an half thick, and about twenty feet in height, forming a regular - headed handsome tree, with oval leaves. The flowers grow at the ends of the branches in clusters; each flower is composed of a green calix, and five small narrow petals of a purple colour and fragrant smell, and is succeeded by a nut not unlike in form and size to a Hare's kidney, of a shining brown colour, containing a kernel resembling an Almond in size and taste. The shell inclosing this kernel is double, and contai