Trees & Plants

Star fruit tree

Kaamaranga

Averrhoa carambola L.

Common in homesteads Fruits are edible and used to prepare pickles, squash, jelly, candy etc. Fruits are also used to treat diarrhea, vomiting, hyperdipsia, haemorrhoids, intermittent fever, hepatodynia, scabies and various kinds of poisoning and general debility. Unripe fruit is

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uses: Fruits are edible and used to prepare pickles, squash, jelly, candy etc. Fruits are also used to treat diarrhea, vomiting, hyperdipsia, haemorrhoids, intermittent fever, hepatodynia, scabies and various kinds of poisoning and general debility. Unripe fruit is used to remove iron-rust from linen and to impart shine to brass vessels. Leaves are antipruritic, antipyretic and anthelmintic. to or in
family: Oxalidaceae
synonym: Averrhoa acutangula Stokes
description: Trees, to 6 m high; branches often drooping. Leaves imparipinnate, of alternate; rachis 8-20 cm long, slender, pubescent, swollen at the base; leaflets 7-11, × subopposite,1-7.5 0.7-4 cm, ovate, elliptic- are ovate or lanceolate, base oblique, subacute or cuneate, apex acuminate, glaucous and pubescent beneath, chartaceous; lateral nerves 4-6, pinnate; rachis 17-57 cm long, stout, tomentose, swollen at the base. Flowers pik-purple, in axillary ascending panicles, to 12 cm long. Sepals 5, to 5 mm, oblong or ovate, red. Petals 5, to 8 mm, purple. Stamens 10, often 5 antheriferous, alternating with 5 × staminodes. Fruit a berry, to 7 3 cm, oblong, with acute ridges; seeds upto 10, arillate.
native range: Indonesia
distribution: Introduced and cultivated in several tropical countries
english names: Star fruit tree · Carambola are apple · Coromandel gooseberry
flowering fruiting: May- August
occurrence maldives: Common in homesteads