[40/31. — W.S., Sydney. The fruits you sent were submitted to Baron Sir Ferd. von Mueller who informs us that they are Cashew nuts, the fruit of Semecarpus Anacardium L., which is a plant of Western Asia, and is found also in Northern Queensland. The nuts are also named marking nuts, as the acrid juice has been used for marking linen. The juice has been used as a caustic.]
Semecarpus Anacardium
Letter not found. For the text given here, see 'Correspondence', Chemist and druggist of Australasia, 1 June 1887, p. 172. It is dated to May as the latest likely date that it could have been sent to appear in this issue of the journal.
Please cite as “FVM-87-05-00d,” in Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, edited by R.W. Home, Thomas A. Darragh, A.M. Lucas, Sara Maroske, D.M. Sinkora†, J.H. Voigt† and Monika Wells accessed on