Anacardiaceae is a family of plants bearing drupes, some of which produce the irritant urushiol. The type genus is the cashew. Other plants in this family are the mango, poison ivy, and the pistachio, which is sometimes placed in its own family Pistaciaceae.
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... leper colony (see Kalawao County, Hawaii), he contracted the disease, from which he died at the colony.
He is the patron of lepers and outcasts, and was recently made ...