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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.
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 bilimbi (commonly known as bilimbi, cucumber tree, or tree sorrel [2]) is a fruit-bearing tree of the genus Averrhoa, family Oxalidaceae. It is believed to be originally native to the Maluku Islands of Indonesia but has naturalized and is common throughout Southeast Asia. It is cultivated in parts of tropical South Asia and the ...
In June 2022, a male Sumatran orangutan named Rakus sustained a facial wound below the right eye, apparently during a fight with another male orangutan at the Suaq Balimbing research site, a ...
The fruits are berries and have a pointy pentagon shape to it unlike any other baccaurea fruit, 5–6 cm long by 2.3–2.6 cm in diameter, have a star-shaped cross-section, and are dark purple when immature, ripening bright red, has a hard but easy-to-open shell, with the seeds contained in an edible, white arillode.
Averrhoa is a genus of trees in the family Oxalidaceae.It includes five species native to Java, the Maluku Islands, New Guinea, Sulawesi, and Vietnam. [1] The genus is named after Averroes, a 12th-century astronomer and philosopher from Al-Andalus.
Balimbing or Balingbing in filipino languages refers to the Starfuit, an entirely different species. This tree, as far as I'm aware of in here (Philippines that is), is referred to as Ibo or Kamias (pronounced kamyas or kami-as).
Orangutans in Suaq Balimbing were recorded to develop a tool kit for use in foraging which consisted of both insect-extraction sticks for use in the hollows of trees and seed-extraction sticks for harvesting seeds from hard-husked fruit. The orangutans adjusted their tools according to the task at hand, and preference was given to oral tool use.