Averrhoa carambola L.
Carambola Star Fruit Five-corner
Shrub or small tree growing 5-10 m tall leaves compound, leaflets 5-11 nearly opposite, ovate-oblong flowers lilac or purple –streaked, arranged in small clusters on the ends of the branches or sometimes on the larger stems and trunk, each cluster is attached to the tree with red stalks fruits edible, showy with an oblong shape: they are longitudinally 5- to 6-angled and 635–15 cm long and up to 9 cm wide
Ornamental plant. A multipurpose tree providing a very popular fruit as well as having a range of medicinal and other uses. It is often cultivated for its fruit, but mainly in gardens, and is generally only sold in local markets because the fruit is extremely perishable and therefore difficult to get to more distant markets
Averrhoa acutangula Stokes
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