- Scientific name
- Anacardium occidentale
- Common name
- Acajou, Noix de cajou, Anacardier
- Kingdom / family
- Anacardiaceae
- Genus
- Anacardium
- Category
- plantae
- Primary role
- crop
- Temperature
- 15 to 35 °C
- pH
- 4.5 to 6.5
- Precipitation
- 750 to 1600 mm
- Soil texture
- 3
- Light
- 3/10
- Native regions
- ["Amazonia nororiental de Colombia, departamento del Guainía, municipio de Inírida.","Caño Cuduyarí, departamento de Vaupés (Amazonia Colombiana)","Amazonia colombiana: sur del departamento del Vichada; el suroriente del Meta; todo el territorio de los departamentos de Amazonas, Caquetá, Guainía, Guaviare, Putumayo y Vaupés; la Bota Caucana; y las vertientes amazónicas de Nariño (la parte alta de los ríos Guamuez, Sucio, San Miguel y Aguarico)","Bolivia","Brazil Northeast","Brazil North","Brazil Southeast","Brazil West-Central","Colombia","Ecuador","Guyana","Peru","Suriname","Trinidad-Tobago","Venezuela","El Carmen de Chucurí | Floridablanca","Parque Nacional Natutral de Amacayacu | Parque Nacional Natural Sierra de la Macarena","Complejo Humedales Hato Corozal. Cienaga Zapatosa","Macarena Sur","Gambia [I]; Guinea-Bissau [I]; Guinea [I]; Burkina Faso [I]; Togo [I]; Benin [I]; Cameroon [I]; Bioko Isl. [Fernando Poo] [I]; Principe Isl. [I]; São Tomé [I]; Annobon Isl. [c]; Congo [Brazzaville] [I]; Central African Republic [I]; Chad [c]; Angola [I]; Zambia [I]; Mozambique [I]; South Africa [I]; Madagascar [I]; Seychelles [I]; China [I] (Fujian [I], Guangdong [I], Guangxi [I], Yunnan [I]); Taiwan [I]; Nepal [c]; India [I] (widespread); Sri Lanka [I]; Bangladesh [I]; Andaman Isl. [I] (South Andaman Isl. [I]); Myanmar [I]; Thailand [I]; Laos [I]; Cambodia [I]; Vietnam [I]; peninsular Malaysia [I]; Singapore [I]; Brunei [I]; Philippines [I]; Sulawesi [I]; Java [I]; Lesser Sunda Isl. [I] (Bali [I]); New Caledonia [I]; Niue [I]; Fiji [I]; Cook Isl. [I] (Rarotonga [I], Aitutaki [I], Atiu [i]); Marquesas Isl. [I] (Nuku Hiva [I], Ua Huka [I], Ua Pou [I], Hiva Oa [I]); Society Isl. [I] (Tahiti [I], Raiatea [I]); Northern Marianas [I] (Saipan [I]); Guam [I]; Fed. States of Micronesia [I] (Yap [I]); Mexico [I]; Belize; Honduras [I]; Nicaragua [I]; Panama [I]; Cuba [I]; Jamaica [I]; Dominican Republic [I]; Haiti [I]; Puerto Rico [I] (incl. Vieques Isl. [I], Culebra Isl. [I]); Virgin Isl. [I]; Anguilla [I]; St. Martin/St. Maarten [I]; St. Barthélémy [I]; Saba [I]; St. Eustatius [I]; Antigua [I]; Montserrat [I]; Guadeloupe [I]; Marie-Galante [I]; Dominica [I]; Martinique [I]; St. Lucia [I]; Grenadines [I]; St. Vincent [I]; Grenada [I]; Barbados [I]; Tobago [I]; Trinidad [I]; Colombia [I]; Venezuela [I]; Guyana [I]; Surinam [I]; French Guiana [I]; Ecuador [I]; Peru [I]; Bolivia (Beni, Cochabamba, La Paz, Pando, Santa Cruz); N-Brazil (Roraima, Amapa, Pará, Amazonas, Tocantins, Acre); NE-Brazil (Maranhao, Piauí, Ceara, Rio Grande do Norte, Paraíba, Pernambuco, Bahia, Alagoas, Sergipe); WC-Brazil (Mato Grosso, Goiás, Brasilia Distrito Federal); SE-Brazil (Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro); S-Brazil (Paraná, Santa Catarina)","Barrancabermeja | Yopal | Leticia | Villavicencio | Manizales","Global","Caribbean","BR"]
- Invasive regions
- ["Galápagos Islands","Andaman Is.","Angola","Assam","Bangladesh","Belize","Benin","Burkina","Cambodia","Cameroon","Caroline Is.","Cayman Is.","Central African Republic","China South-Central","China Southeast","Comoros","Congo","Costa Rica","Cuba","DR Congo","Dominican Republic","El Salvador","French Guiana","Gambia","Guatemala","Guinea-Bissau","Guinea","Gulf of Guinea Is.","Haiti","Honduras","India","Jamaica","Kenya","KwaZulu-Natal","Laos","Leeward Is.","Malaya","Marianas","Marquesas","Mexico Southwest","Mozambique","Myanmar","Nicaragua","Nicobar Is.","Puerto Rico","Senegal","Seychelles","Society Is.","Southwest Caribbean","Sri Lanka","Sudan-South Sudan","Sulawesi","Taiwan","Tanzania","Thailand","Tuamotu","Venezuelan Antilles","Vietnam","Wallis-Futuna Is.","Windward Is.","Zambia","Zimbabwe","AI","AO","AS","AU","BF","BN"]