Here are some pictures from our time at Tim Franklin’s home in Natal.  (This is where Barry also grew up.)  There are several pictures of the cashew fruit. Many people are only familiar with the cashew nut. The nut is encased in the grayish curved part at the bottom of the fruit. There are a number of varieties, two of which are pictured. The fruit is juicy, but acidic and the nut is not edible as it is.  It has a poison similar to poison ivy.  It has to be burned and the outside knocked off before it can be eaten.  So it usually serves as a handle to eat the fruit with and is then collected in bags to be  sold ($5 for a bag about 10 kgs.) to people who process them to sell ($10 per kg.).

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