Carambola /Star Fruit (Kamranga Fal)

Carambola /Star Fruit (Kamranga Fal)

Carambola /Star Fruit's Flower (Kamranga Ful)

Carambola /Star Fruit's Flower (Kamranga Ful)

Carambola /Star Fruit (Kamranga Fal)

Carambola /Star Fruit Tree (Kamranga Fal Gass)

A cross section of a Carambola /Star Fruit (Kamranga Fal)


Carambola /Star Fruit is known as Kamranga in Bangladesh.Its
scientific name is Averrhoa Carambola and Family is Oxalidaceae.

Carambola /Star Fruit (Kamranga Fal) is a  slow growing small tropical tree,

no more than 8 meters tall. The green leaflets of this tree are sensitive to light

and fold inward at night. It has small, pink colored flowers with a dark-red heart.

The carambola/Star Fruit (Kamranga Fal)  plant will flower and fruit four

times yearly. This tropical fruit, fleshy five lobbed, ovate to elliptoid, is

attractive yellow-orange and pleasantly aromatic! The tree flowers and fruit

almost year-round. When sliced in cross section a perfect star is formed. Carambola

is eaten fresh or in fruit salads. The carambola tree seems to be used for bonsai.