Dear Raman ji When did you click these photos...i mean is the plant in flowering or fruiting stage at this time of the year??
Alok NIPER On Sunday, April 29, 2012 7:31:44 PM UTC-7, raman wrote: > > A slow growing small tropical tree, no more than 25 feet tall, originally > from Southeast Asia (Indonesia) The green leaflets are sensitive to light > and fold inward at night. It has small, pink colored flowers with a > dark-red heart. The carambola 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 > bears 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. > > Raman >
