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COMMERCIAL CARAMBOLA AREAS

Carambola is grown in cool subtropical areas with nonfreezing winters (California, Taiwan,

Israel), in humid subtropical areas with summer rainfall pattern (Mexico), in semitropical/warm
subtropical areas with summer rainfall pattern (Florida, Taiwan), and lowland tropical areas

(Malaysia, Indonesia, Guyana, Thailand).

Areas with exposure to warmest temperatures possible during the fall/winter months

and planted within natural and/or manmade wind breaks. Carambola is planted in many well

drained soil types, pH 4.5-7.0, with moderate to high fertility.

Background

1. Common names include star fruit (starfruit), bilimbi, and five-finger.

2. Member of the Oxalidaceae.

3. Indigenous to southeast Asia.

4. Distributed throughout many tropical and warm subtropical areas of the world.

5. Grown commercially in Taiwan, Malaysia, Guyana, India, Philippines, Australia, Israel, and the

US (Florida, Hawaii, Puerto Rico).

Description

1. Carambola trees are small to medium height (6-10 m) and width (6-8 m).

2. Generally, evergreen, although looses some or all leaves during cool periods (season).

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