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Carambola, also known as star fruit, is the fruit of Averrhoa carambola, a species of tree native to tropical Southeast Asia. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The edible fruit has distinctive ridges running down its sides (usually 5–6). [ 1 ]
Averrhoa carambola is a species of tree in the family Oxalidaceae native to tropical Southeast Asia; [1] it has a number of common names, including carambola, star fruit and five-corner. [2] It is a small tree or shrub that grows 5 to 12 m (16 to 39 ft) tall, with rose to red-purple flowers.
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Original - A ripe carambola or starfruit, the fruit of the Averrhoa carambola tree, showing vertical, side and cross section profiles. The fruit in cross-section is a five-pointed star, hence its name. Version 2; Edit 2 - A new composition from a fresh shoot, together with their original shadows; readjusted exposure levels, color and file size.
Years later, Carl Linnaeus referenced the genus in 1768. [2] It was a generic name employed by Linnaeus for incorporating fossil fruits and seeds that could not be assigned to a natural plant group. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Linnaeus referred to "Phytolithus fructus" as Carpolithus.
Mangosteen is the national fruit of Thailand. It is also known as the ‘Queen of Fruits’. It is available from May until August. Mangosteen is called ‘Mangkhud’ in Thai language. Turkey: Sultana Grapes: Vitis vinifera [citation needed] Turkmenistan: Watermelon: Citrullus lanatus [citation needed] United Arab Emirates: Dates: Phoenix ...
The ability to produce seedless fruit when pollination is unsuccessful may be an advantage to a plant because it provides food for the plant's seed dispersers. Without a fruit crop, the seed dispersing animals may starve or migrate. In some plants, pollination or another stimulation is required for parthenocarpy, termed stimulative parthenocarpy.
A caryopsis or grain is a type of fruit that closely resembles an achene, but differs in that the pericarp is fused to the thin seed coat in the grain. An utricle is like an achene, but the fruit is bladder-like or inflated. [3] Fruits of sedges are sometimes considered achenes although their one-locule ovary is a compound ovary. Cypsela of Cynara