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The cashew nut is attached to the cashew apple, a modified stem called an accessory fruit that can also be eaten, and is sometimes used to make alcohol.
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There are 29 species of pine nut that are used for consumption, the rest are too small to be worth harvesting.
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The Pistachio is part of the cashew family. Archaeology has shown that pistachio seeds were a common food as early as 6750 BC.
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The butternut, also known as the white walnut, is native to the eastern US and southeast Canada. The bark and nut rinds were used to dye cloth, having a natural yellow-orange dye.
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The Betel nut (or areca nut) is the seed of the areca palm. This nut contains arecoline, a psychoactive similar to nicotine, and is consumed like chewing tobacco, with similar adverse health effects.
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The American chestnut is considered the finest chestnut tree in the world. It is estimated that between 3 to 4 billion trees were destroyed in the first half of the 20th century by chestnut blight, making it an endangered species.
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The Johnstone River Almond is endemic to Queensland, Australia.
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The Gabon nut is native to western Africa, and has a taste between a hazelnut and a chestnut. It is also called the African walnut, but the species are unrelated.
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The Breadnut is native to Mesoamerica, and is thought to have been an important plant to the Mayans, being used both for it's wood, and possibly as food for livestock. (and maybe food for the Mayans as well)
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As per my friend Eva's suggestion I'm doing Nutvember. A month of dragons themed after a random list of nuts I made.
This one is the Shellbark Hickory nut, the largest of the hickories, with a sweet flavour.
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