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Star Fruit (Averrhoa carambola)
Carambola
Averrhoa carambola
Star Fruit
Carambola
The carambola tree is slow-growing, short-trunked bushy, broad, rounded crown and reaches 20 to 30 ft. Its deciduous leaves, spirally arranged, 6 to 10 in long, and smooth on the upper surface, finely hairy and whitish on the underside. Small clusters of red-stalked, lilac, purple-streaked, downy flowers, about 1/4 in wide, are borne on the twigs in the axils of the leaves. The showy, oblong, longitudinally 5- to 6-angled fruits, 2 1/2 to 6 in long and up to 3 1/2 wide, have thin, waxy, orange-yellow skin and juicy, crisp, yellow flesh when fully ripe. Slices cut in cross-section have the form of a star.
The leaflets are sensitive to light and more or less inclined to fold together at night or when the tree is shaken or abruptly shocked.
Juice from fruit will remove stains from hands, clothes, weapons.
EdibleFruit
Ceylon, the Moluccas
20 - 30 FT
20 - 30 FT
N
Medium Green
Fuzzy underside : Soft
Edible : Shrub : Small Tree
Lavender : Pink
Continuous : Summer : Fall
Average
Sun (minimum 8 hours direct sun)
Rich : Well-drained
Medium
Sunset Zones
USDA Zones
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