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Star Fruit botanical plate
Plate · drawn for the register, 2026Averrhoa carambola
Fruit · Medicinal

Star Fruit

Averrhoa carambola L.
Java to the Moluccas
Fun factGrafted trees can fruit within 10–14 months of planting, and a mature tree may yield 110–160 kg of fruit a year.

A small tree in the wood-sorrel family grown for its ribbed yellow fruit, which shows a five-pointed star when sliced across. The compound leaves have 5 to 12 leaflets, and small pink to lavender flowers are followed by waxy-skinned fruits with crisp, juicy, translucent flesh. Trees can crop within their first year or two and a mature tree can carry well over 100 kg of fruit.

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FamilyOxalidaceae
Spanish nameCarambola
Also known asCarambola, Carambola
Native toCentral and eastern Java through Sulawesi to the Maluku Islands of Indonesia; long cultivated across Southeast Asia, India and Sri Lanka
TagGarden areaZonePlantedStatusSponsoredNote
19Main OrchardB1 June 2015Healthy—
20Main OrchardB1 June 2015Healthy—

0 of these have no tag yet; they will be numbered when the garden team re-tags the estate.

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