Cashew Tree

In 1994, the Guinness Book of Records set aside a separate category for the world’s largest cashew tree called Maior Cajueiro do Mundo located in Natal, Brazil. The gigantic tree has grown from a combination of two genetic tissues. Such tissues allow the branches of the tree to grow outwards rather than upwards. Gradually, the branches tend to stoop towards the ground and eventually form into a root. This new root further grows into a new tree.

The massive tree occupies 80,000 square feet of land or roughly two acres. It is estimated to be around a thousand years old. One can climb a tower to view this tree from a vantage point or for that matter, even climb up through the roots.

Cashew

Cashew

You can heartily go and pay a visit to this enormous work of nature. However, beware of the orange caterpillars. These gorgeous looking insects are poisonous. They swamp over the tree seasonally and are a size of a finger.

Cashew

The beauty of this tree is that it produces 60,000 pieces of cashew fruit each year. To some people it may come as a surprise that a cashew nut is not the fruit but a single nut that is attached only to the bottom of the fruit.