Medicinal
Indian cucumber tree,averrhea bilimbi
Averrhoa bilimbi L.
Sulawesi and the Moluccas
Fun factLinnaeus's original description in Species Plantarum (1753) already noted the tree's habit of fruiting from its bare trunk: 'caudice nudo fructificante'.
A small tree of the wood-sorrel family and close relative of the star fruit (carambola), bearing oblong, bluntly angled fruits directly on the trunk and older branches. The fruit is very sour and is usually pickled or used as a souring agent in cooking. It is grown in home gardens across the tropics, from the Philippines to the Caribbean coast of Colombia.
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FamilyOxalidaceae
Spanish nameMimbro (as recorded)
Also known asBilimbi, Cucumber tree, Mimbro (as recorded)
Native toCentral and eastern Malesia (Sulawesi and the Moluccas, Indonesia); cultivated throughout the tropics
| Tag | Garden area | Zone | Planted | Status | Sponsored | Note |
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| — | — | — | 24 May 2018 | Planted | — |
1 of these has no tag yet; it will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.