It also includes orchids, bromeliads, palms, and ferns, as well as less well-known plants such as jaboticaba, black sapote, jackfruit, and carambola trees.
This limited market and public acceptance, inhibiting development and expansion of carambola as a commercial fresh fruit.
They should not be confused with the carambola, which also share some of the same names despite being very different fruits.
Until the early 1970s, carambola had been grown only as specimen trees in botanical gardens and experiment stations and as a curiosity in home landscapes.
Oxalic acid is present in tomatoes, spinach, and especially in carambola and rhubarb; rhubarb leaves and unripe carambolas are toxic because of high concentrations of oxalic acid.
The large amount of rain during spring actually reduces the amount of fruit, but, in ideal conditions, carambola can produce from 200to 400 of fruit a year.
This is essentially a tropical tree, less resistant to cold than the carambola, growing best in rich and well-drained soil (but also stands limestone and sand).
