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Casimiroa (named in honor of Cardinal Casimiro Gomez de Ortega, Spanish botanist of the eighteenth century). Rutaceae. Evergreen trees, one of which, the [[White Sapote]] (''C. edulis'') is grown for the edible fruits.{{SCH}}
Cashew: Anacardium occidentals.
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Casimiroa (named in honor of Cardinal Casimiro Gomez de Ortega, Spanish botanist of the eighteenth century). Rutaceae. Evergreen trees, one of which is grown for the edible fruits.
 
 
Leaves alternate, long-petioled, digitate, 3-7-foliolate; lfts. petiolulate, lanceolate, entire or slightly serrate, smooth or pubescent beneath: fls. regular, polygamo-dioecious; calyx 5-parted, small; petals 5, oblong, valvate, apex incurved; disk inconspicuous, circular; stamens 5, free; filaments subulate; anthers cordate; ovary sessile, on disk, globose, 5- or occasionally 6-8- lobed, 5-celled; stigma sessile, 5-lobed; ovules solitary in the cells, axillary: fr. a drupe, large, depressed-globose; pulp agreeable to taste, edible; seeds oblong, compressed, exalbuminose.—Four species in Mex. and S.
 
Leaves alternate, long-petioled, digitate, 3-7-foliolate; lfts. petiolulate, lanceolate, entire or slightly serrate, smooth or pubescent beneath: fls. regular, polygamo-dioecious; calyx 5-parted, small; petals 5, oblong, valvate, apex incurved; disk inconspicuous, circular; stamens 5, free; filaments subulate; anthers cordate; ovary sessile, on disk, globose, 5- or occasionally 6-8- lobed, 5-celled; stigma sessile, 5-lobed; ovules solitary in the cells, axillary: fr. a drupe, large, depressed-globose; pulp agreeable to taste, edible; seeds oblong, compressed, exalbuminose.—Four species in Mex. and S.
 
 
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==Species==
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*''Casimiroa edulis'' - [[White Sapote]]
  
 
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Read about Casimiroa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

Casimiroa (named in honor of Cardinal Casimiro Gomez de Ortega, Spanish botanist of the eighteenth century). Rutaceae. Evergreen trees, one of which, the White Sapote (C. edulis) is grown for the edible fruits.CH

Leaves alternate, long-petioled, digitate, 3-7-foliolate; lfts. petiolulate, lanceolate, entire or slightly serrate, smooth or pubescent beneath: fls. regular, polygamo-dioecious; calyx 5-parted, small; petals 5, oblong, valvate, apex incurved; disk inconspicuous, circular; stamens 5, free; filaments subulate; anthers cordate; ovary sessile, on disk, globose, 5- or occasionally 6-8- lobed, 5-celled; stigma sessile, 5-lobed; ovules solitary in the cells, axillary: fr. a drupe, large, depressed-globose; pulp agreeable to taste, edible; seeds oblong, compressed, exalbuminose.—Four species in Mex. and S. CH


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