Anacardium excelsum
| Wild cashew | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Sapindales |
| Family: | Anacardiaceae |
| Genus: | Anacardium |
| Species: | A. excelsum |
| Binomial name | |
| Anacardium excelsum | |
| Synonyms | |
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Anacardium rhinocarpus (Kunth) de Candolle | |
Anacardium excelsum, the wild cashew, espavél 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.