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** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, AUG. 27-28 ** Fruit and Spice Park manager Chris Rolliins holds the fruit and nut from a cashew tree July 22, 2005, in Redland, Fla. Cashew nuts are the seeds attatched to the bottom of the the red fruit called the cashew apple. The 35-acre garden, owned and operated by Miami-Dade County Parks, is billed as the only tropical botanical garden of its kind in the United States with more than 500 varieties of fruit, vegetables, spices, herbs and other plants. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)
** ADVANCE FOR WEEKEND, AUG. 27-28 ** Fruit and Spice Park manager Chris Rolliins holds the fruit and nut from a cashew tree July 22, 2005, in Redland, Fla. Cashew nuts are the seeds attatched to the bottom of the the red fruit called the cashew apple. The 35-acre garden, owned and operated by Miami-Dade County Parks, is billed as the only tropical botanical garden of its kind in the United States with more than 500 varieties of fruit, vegetables, spices, herbs and other plants. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

RATNAGIRI DISTRICT, India — When the cashew harvest starts here, the orchards clinging to the lush, wrinkled hills are blanketed by a brilliant yellow, orange and red carpet, created after farmers pluck the nut and toss its stem to the ground.

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