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The Golden Starfruit Tree (Vietnamese: Ăn khế trả vàng, lit. 'Eating starfruit and paying with gold' or simply Vietnamese: Cây khế, lit. 'The starfruit tree') is a Vietnamese folktale. It tells the story of a poor farmer who is paid handsomely by a magical bird after letting it feed on his starfruit tree, and his rich older brother who ...
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] When cut in cross-section, it resembles a star, giving it the name of star fruit.
The tree and fruits have many different names, carambola is the Spanish vernacular name of the tree. [4] In English it is called star fruit, five-corner or carambola, [7] in Malaysia and the Philippines it has numerous names. [5] In Indonesia it is called belimbing, in Tagalog it is called balimbing. The related bilimbi is called kamias in Tagalog.
Spondias dulcis (syn. Spondias cytherea), known commonly as April plum, is a tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. In the English-speaking Caribbean it is typically known as golden apple and elsewhere in the Caribbean as pommecythere, June Plum or cythere. In Polynesia it is known as vī.
Lime tree in culture – uses of the lime (linden) tree by humans; Rose symbolism – a more expansive list of symbolic meanings of the rose; Apple (symbolism) – a more expansive list of symbolic means for apples
Ba Giai and Tú Xuất are a fictional duo appearing in Northern Vietnam's popular folk tales. The two characters are typically nominally citizens under the early French colonial period, but stories may place them in earlier dynasties or later.
Averrhoa carambola: carambola; star fruit Oxalidaceae (wood sorrel family) Pandanaceae: screwpine family; Pandanus: pandanus trees; Pandanus utilis: screwpine Pandanaceae (screwpine family) Papaveraceae: poppy family; Bocconia: Bocconia frutescens: tree poppy Papaveraceae (poppy family) Dendromecon: Dendromecon harfordii: Channel Islands tree poppy
Centaurea solstitialis, the yellow star-thistle, is a species of thorny plant in the genus Centaurea, which is part of the family Asteraceae.A winter annual, it is native to the Mediterranean Basin region and invasive in many other places.