fruit facts 
Dr Chiranjit Parmar

Largest cashew tree

The largest cashew tree of the world is at a park in Pirangi near a beach of Natal, Brazil. This tree is spread in an area of 700 sq metres and has a perimeter of half a kilometre. This tree is 125 years old. It was planted by a Brazilian fisherman Luiz Inácio de Oliveira in 1888. Oliveira has been buried under this tree. According to botanists, the extraordinary large size of t  his tree may be due to some genetically abnormality. 





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