The cashew apple is the swollen, juicy, pear-shaped "false fruit" of the cashew tree (Anacardium occidentale) — a glossy red or yellow accessory fruit that hangs from the branch with the true fruit, the kidney-shaped cashew nut, dangling beneath it. Soft, extremely juicy and intensely aromatic with a sweet but mouth-puckeringly astringent flesh, it is eaten fresh and, far more often, pressed for juice and fermented or cooked into drinks such as Brazil's cajuína and the spirit feni.