"it shares some common names. It is also called ""star fruit"" in English (including Jamaican English and Philippine English) and literally translates into ""Stjernefrugt"" in Danish, ""Sternfrucht"" in German, and ""Stjärnfrukt"" in Swedish. In Spanish, it is known as ""carambola"", ""carambolo"", ""tamarindo chino"", ""tamarindo culí"", ""balimbín"" (Philippine Spanish, from Tagalog ""balimbing"", plural is ""balimbines""), and ""fruta china"" (Ecuador). In maritime Southeast Asia, it is known as ""belimbing"" in Indonesian and Malay and ""balimbíng"" or ""saranate"" in Tagalog. Carambola Carambola, or star fruit, is the fruit of ""Averrhoa carambola"", a species of tree native to Indonesia, the Philippines, and throughout Malesia."
"where he worked as a stockbroker until 1981. During the late 1960s, Mr. Arkin began cultivating plants and trees in his backyard, eventually developing a kind of carambola, or star fruit, that became commercially viable and was named after him. 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. However, because of its attractive star shape when cut in cross-section and yellow to golden color, it began to grow in popularity. Fruit from early introductions were however, sour and sometimes considered unpalatable. This limited"
"The fruits take up to a year to mature in most areas, sometimes as long as 18 months. The tree was named ""Couroupita guianensis"" by the French botanist Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet in 1775. Common names in other languages include many translations of the English ""cannonball tree"". Common names include ""macacarecuia"" (Portuguese), ""coco sachapura"" (Colombia, Panama), ""bala de cañón"" (Costa Rica, Panama), ""kanonskogelboom"" (Dutch), ""arbre à boulet de canon"" (French), ""kouroupitoumou"" (French Guiana), 'Nagalinga Ful' (or nagalingam) (Bengali), ""Nagalinga Pushpa"" (Kannada), ""Nagalingam"" or ""Lingam"" (Tamil), నాగమల్లి ""Nagamalli"" (Telugu), ""sala"" (Indonesia), ""granadillo de las huacas"" (Panama), ""ayahuma"" (Peru), and ""boskalebas"""
"is derived from the Mexican town of Campeche, where it is native. In the numerous countries where it is cultivated or sold, it is known by many vernacular names; canistel is common, as are variations on egg-fruit and names referring to its yellow color. In the Philippines it is called ""chesa"" or ""tiessa"" or ""tiesa"". In Sri Lanka this fruit is known as ""Laulu"", ""Lavulu"" or ""Lawalu"". In Thailand it is known by different traditional popular names such as ""Lamut Khamen"" (ละมุดเขมร=""Khmer Sapodilla"") or ""Tho Khamen"" (ท้อเขมร=""Khmer Peach""), folk imagination attributing a hypothetical Cambodian origin to this fruit (the name"
"melon or melon pear. Another common name, ""tree melon"", is more often used for the papaya (""Carica papaya"") though the pepino dulce plant generally does not look much like a tree; it looks more like a ground cover, trailing plant. The present species is, however, a close relative of other nightshades cultivated for their fruit, including the tomato (""S. lycopersicum"") and the eggplant (""S. melongena""), which its own fruit closely resembles. The fruit is common in markets in Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru and Chile, but less often overseas because it is quite sensitive to handling and does not travel well."
"Spondias dulcis Spondias dulcis (syn. ""Spondias cytherea""), known commonly as ambarella (ඇඹරැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka or June plum is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. It is known by many other names in various regions, including kedondong in Indonesia and in Malaysia, buah long long among the Chinese population in Singapore,Isbaandheys' in Somalia, Embe Ng'ong'o' in Tanzania, prune de cythère, pommecythere, or golden apple in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Saint Lucia and Martinique, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, mangotín in Panama, yuplón in Costa Rica, golden apple in Grenada, Saint Vincent"
"(""pampelmuse""), Latvian (""pampelmūze""), Ido (""pompelmuso""), whereas some other languages use ""pomelo"" (Turkish, Norwegian, Polish, Bulgarian).In Southeast Asia, it is commonly known as limau besar, limau betawi, or limau serdadu in Malay; jeruk bali in Bahasa Indonesia; ส้มโอ [som o:] in Thai; lukban in Tagalog; and bu’o’i in Vietnamese. Another origin theory proposes that ""pomelo"" is an alteration of a compound of English names ""pomme"" (""apple"") + ""melon"".<ref name=""OED2008/06"">“pomelo, ""n.""” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [Draft revision; June 2008]</ref> The fruit is also known as jabong in Hawaii and jambola in varieties of English spoken in South Asia. Typically, the"
"and pathogens, however, whole star fruits cannot yet be imported to the US from Malaysia under current United States Department of Agriculture regulations. In the United States, carambolas are grown in tropical and semitropical areas, including Texas, South Carolina, Louisiana, California, Virginia, Florida and Hawaii. In the United States, commercial cultivation and broad consumer acceptance of the fruit only dates to the 1970s, attributable to Morris Arkin, a backyard horticulturalist, in Coral Gables, Florida. The 'Arkin' variety represented 98% of the acreage in South Florida in the early 21st century. The trees are also grown as ornamentals for their abundant"
"fruit is called Iyeye or Yeye in the Yoruba language, ngulungwu in Igbo and isada in Hausa. Other common names include hug plum, true yellow mombin, golden apple or Java plum, Ambaralla (ඇඹරැල්ල) in Sri Lanka. In Panama it is called mangotin. In ""habla congo"" of palo mayombe in Cuba, it is called ""nkunia guenguere kunansieto', ciruela. In Palauan, it is called titimel. Spondias mombin Spondias mombin or ""Spondias purpurea"" var. ""lutea"", also known as yellow mombin or hog plum is a species a tree and flowering plant in the family Anacardiaceae. It is native to the tropical Americas, including"
"Atemoya The atemoya, Annona × cherimoya, or Annona squamosa × Annona cherimola is a hybrid of two fruits – the sugar-apple (""Annona squamosa"") and the cherimoya (""Annona cherimola"") – which are both native to the American tropics. This fruit is popular in Taiwan, where it is known as the ""pineapple sugar apple"" (鳳梨釋迦), so is sometimes wrongly believed to be a cross between the sugar-apple and the pineapple. In Cuba it is known as ""anón"", and in Venezuela ""chirimorinon"". In Israel and Lebanon, the fruit is called ""achta"". In Tanzania it is called ""stafeli dogo"" (""mini soursop""). In Brazil, the"
"quitoense""), uchuva (""Physalis peruviana""), papayuela (""Vasconcellea pubescens""), passion fruit, borojó (""Borojoa patinoi""), curuba (""Passiflora tarminiana""), mamoncillo (""Melicoccus bijugatus""), guanábana (""Annona muricata""), guava (""Psidium guajava""), tomate de arbol (tamarillo), noni (""Morinda citrifolia""). More widespread fruit varieties grown in Colombia include mango, apple, pear, blackberry, and strawberry. On a per capita basis, Colombia is one of the world's largest consumers of fruit juices, consuming on average more than three quarters of a serving each day. Colombian cuisine Colombian cuisine is a compound of the culinary traditions of the six main regions within the country (Pacific, Amazonian, Andean, Orinoco, Caribbean, and Insular). Colombian"
"ceramics. Cherimoya The cherimoya (""Annona cherimola""), also spelled chirimoya and called chirimuya by the Inca people, is an edible fruit-bearing species of the genus ""Annona"" from the family Annonaceae. It is generally thought to be native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, spreading through cultivation to the Andes and Central America. Cherimoya is grown in tropical regions throughout the world. Mark Twain called the cherimoya ""the most delicious fruit known to men"". The creamy texture of the flesh gives the fruit its secondary name, custard apple. It is in the same genus, ""Annona"", as soursop. The name originates from the"
"""Carica papaya"". By 1598, English-speaking people in the Caribbean were calling these plants ""pawpaws"" or ""papaws"" . . . [yet later, when English-speakers settled in] the temperate Americas they found another tree with a similarly aromatic, sweet fruit. It reminded them of the ""papaya"", which had already become ""papaw"", so that is what they called these different plants. . . By 1760 the names ""papaw"" and ""pawpaw"" were being applied to ""A. triloba"". Yet ""Asimina triloba"" has had numerous local common names, many of which compare it to a banana rather than to pawpaw/papaya (i.e. to ""Carica papaya""). These include:"
"Amelonado, Criollo, Nacional, Contamana, Curaray, Cacao guiana, Iquitos, Marañon, Nanay, and Purús. The generic name is derived from the Greek for ""food of the gods""; from θεός (""theos""), meaning ""god"", and βρῶμα (""broma""), meaning ""food"". The specific name ""cacao"" is the Hispanization of the name of the plant in indigenous Mesoamerican languages. The cacao was known as ""kakaw"" in Tzeltal, K'iche' and Classic Maya; ""kagaw"" in Sayula Popoluca; and ""cacahuatl"" in Nahuatl as ""bean of the cocoa-tree"". ""T. cacao"" is widely distributed from southeastern Mexico to the Amazon basin. There were originally two hypotheses about its domestication; one said that"
"both the fruits and the tender leaves are eaten. Spondias dulcis Spondias dulcis (syn. ""Spondias cytherea""), known commonly as ambarella (ඇඹරැල්ලා) in Sri Lanka or June plum is an equatorial or tropical tree, with edible fruit containing a fibrous pit. It is known by many other names in various regions, including kedondong in Indonesia and in Malaysia, buah long long among the Chinese population in Singapore,Isbaandheys' in Somalia, Embe Ng'ong'o' in Tanzania, prune de cythère, pommecythere, or golden apple in Trinidad and Tobago, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Suriname, Saint Lucia and Martinique, June plum in Bermuda and Jamaica, mangotín in Panama, yuplón"
"of the USDA - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) - National Plant Germplasm System NGRL. Momordica charantia Momordica charantia (colloquial: bitter melon; bitter apple; bitter gourd; bitter squash; balsam-pear) is a tropical and subtropical vine of the family Cucurbitaceae, widely grown in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean for its edible fruit. Its many varieties differ substantially in the shape and bitterness of the fruit. Bitter melon originated in India and was introduced into China in the 14th century. It is widely used in East Asian, South Asian, and Southeast Asian cuisine. Bitter melon also has names in other languages which have"
"Cherimoya The cherimoya (""Annona cherimola""), also spelled chirimoya and called chirimuya by the Inca people, is an edible fruit-bearing species of the genus ""Annona"" from the family Annonaceae. It is generally thought to be native to Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia, spreading through cultivation to the Andes and Central America. Cherimoya is grown in tropical regions throughout the world. Mark Twain called the cherimoya ""the most delicious fruit known to men"". The creamy texture of the flesh gives the fruit its secondary name, custard apple. It is in the same genus, ""Annona"", as soursop. The name originates from the Quechua"
"fruit for culinary purposes, although in botany they are classified as fruit). Pawpaw fruits have a sweet, custardish flavor somewhat similar to banana, mango, and cantaloupe, and are commonly eaten raw, but are also used to make ice cream and baked desserts. This plant's scientific name is ""Asimina triloba."" The genus name ""Asimina"" is adapted from the Native American (probably Miami-Illinois) name ""assimin"" or ""rassimin"" through the French colonial ""asiminier."" The epithet ""triloba"" in the species' scientific name refers to the flowers' three-lobed calices and doubly three-lobed corollas, the shape not unlike a tricorne hat. The common name of this"
"Tamarillo The tamarillo is a small tree or shrub in the flowering plant family Solanaceae (the nightshade family). It is best known as the species that bears the tamarillo, an egg-shaped edible fruit. It is also known as the tree tomato, tomate andino, tomate serrano, tomate de yuca, sachatomate, berenjena, tamamoro, and tomate de árbol in South America. They are popular globally, especially in New Zealand, Australia, and America. The tamarillo is native to the Andes of Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Bolivia. Today it is still cultivated in gardens and small orchards for local production, and it is one"
"Rollinia deliciosa Rollinia deliciosa is a species of flowering plant in the custard-apple family, Annonaceae, that is native to tropical South America. It is cultivated for its edible fruits, commonly known as biribá or wild sugar-apple, throughout the world's tropics and subtropics. The Brazilian name, ""biribá"" has become somewhat well known. Nonetheless, the fruits are occasionally known by other names, including ""wild sugar apple"" and ""aratiku"". Biribá is a fast-growing, flood-tolerant, sun-loving tropical tree, with leaves up to 35 cm long. It can reach a height of , which can bear fruit from seed within 3 years. The fruit is"
"common name for the fruit among English authors. The word ""pomelo"" (also spelled pomello, pummelo, pommelo, pumelo) has become the more common name, although ""pomelo"" has historically been used for grapefruit. (The 1973 printing of the American Heritage Dictionary, for example, gives grapefruit as the only meaning of ""pomelo."") The etymology of the word ""pomelo"" is complex. In Tamil it is called ""pampa limāsu"", which means big citrus. The name was adopted by the Portuguese as ""pomposos limões"" and then by the Dutch as ""pompelmoes"". With some deviations, the name may be found in many European languages, such as German"
"the fruit are poisonous. ""Momordica balsamina"" and the related ""Momordica charantia"" share some common names: African cucumber, balsam apple, and balsam pear. Other names for ""M. balsamina"" are balsamina or southern balsam pear. It is known in Africa under a broad range of names, e.g. in Mozambique as ""cacana"" and in South Africa as ""nkaka"". Momordica balsamina Momordica balsamina is a tendril-bearing annual vine native to the tropical regions of Africa, introduced and invasive in Asia, Australia, and Central America. It has pale yellow, deeply veined flowers and round, somewhat warty, bright orange fruits, or ""apples"". When ripe, the fruits"
"Murabba Murabba (from , ""murabba"" ""jam"", ""fruit preserves""; , ""muraba"", , , ""muraba"", , ""murabbā"", , ""morobbā"", , morrabâ, , ""murabbo"", , ) refers to sweet fruit preserve which is popular in many regions of Caucasus, Central Asia, South Asia, and the Middle East. It is traditionally prepared with fruits, sugar, and spices. A popular fruit that is candied is apple, apricot, gooseberry (amla), mango, plum, quince which can be preserved for long periods both as a wet murabba and a dry version, and is said to have medicinal properties. It is widely used in Indian traditional and folk medicine."
"and Nelson Zamora named it ""Ruptiliocarpon caracolito"", basing their description mostly on specimens from Costa Rica. ""Ruptiliocarpon"" is a Latin-Greek hybrid name. ""Ruptilio"", in Latin, means ""to split irregularly"", and ""carpon"" is the Greek word for fruit. The name describes the characteristic opening of the fruit and is an obvious difference from ""Lepidobotrys"", the other member of the family. Though some language purists frown on the creation of hybrid names, and the ICBN discourages it, Hammel and Zamora created this name because, as they said, ""we consider the purely Greek or Latin options decidedly inelegant"". When Hammel and Zamora described"
"Cranberry bean The borlotti bean is a variety of common bean (""Phaseolus vulgaris"") first bred in Colombia as the ""cargamanto"". It is also known as the cranberry bean, Roman bean, romano bean (not to be confused with the Italian flat bean, a green bean also called ""romano bean""), saluggia bean, or rosecoco bean. The bean is a medium to large tan or hazelnut-colored bean splashed or streaked with red, magenta or black. Saluggia beans are named after Saluggia in northern Italy, where they have been grown since the early 1900s. The borlotti bean is a variety of the cranberry bean"
"Magnolia × alba Magnolia"" × ""alba, also known as the white champaca, white sandalwood, or white jade orchid tree, is a flowering plant of hybrid origin that is commonly cultivated in Southeast Asia and tropical regions of East Asia. Although the exact origin is uncertain, it is considered to be a hybrid of ""Magnolia champaca"" and ""Magnolia montana"". The current name of the white champaca is derived from its local name in Indonesian, ""Cempaka Putih"". The white champaca is known by various names in English including ""pak lan"" in Hawaii. Horticultural trade names used in the United States include the"
"Momordica dioica Momordica dioica, commonly known as lauda ka gourd or spine gourd and also known as bristly balsma pear, prickbyly carolaho, teasle gourd, kantola, is a species of flowering plant in the gourd family. It is used as a vegetable in all regions of India and some parts in South Asia. It has commercial importance and is exported and used locally. The fruits are cooked with spices,or fried and sometimes eaten with meat or fish. In Sanskrit it is called as karkotaki(कर्कोटकी), karkoti(कर्कोटी). In hindi it is called as kakoda (ककोड़ा).In Tamil it is called as மெழுகுபாகல் mezhuku-pakal, பழுபாகல்"
"Matricaria chamomilla Matricaria chamomilla (synonym: ""Matricaria recutita""), commonly known as chamomile (also spelled camomile), Italian camomilla, German chamomile, Hungarian chamomile (kamilla), wild chamomile or scented mayweed, is an annual plant of the composite family Asteraceae. ""M. chamomilla"" is the most popular source of the herbal product chamomile, although other species are also used as chamomile. The word chamomile comes from the Greek χαμαίμηλον (""chamaimēlon"") meaning ""earth-apple"", which is derived from χαμαί (""chamai"") meaning ""on the ground"" and μήλον (""mēlon"") meaning ""apple"". It is so called because of the apple-like scent of the plant. Chamomile blue refers to chamazulene, the purified,"
"been problematic for some years. In South America it has been considered under ""P. cumbalensis"", ""P. mollissima"" or ""P. tripartita"" (the species which now includes ""P. mollissima""), or as a hybrid. In Hawaii it was referred to as ""P. mollissima"". In New Zealand it was included under ""P. mixta"" although some sources also used the name ""P. mollissima"" for this species. It was described as a separate species distinct from any of these in 2001. The specific name recognises the Colombian agronomist Tarmín Campos. Common names for ""P. tarminiana"" include banana passionfruit (Australia, New Zealand, Africa, Hawaii), curuba India, curuba"
"Malpighia emarginata Malpighia emarginata is a tropical fruit-bearing shrub or small tree in the family Malpighiaceae. Common names include acerola (, , , Barbados cherry, West Indian cherry, wild crepe myrtle and seriz (Haitian Creole). Acerola is native to South America, southern Mexico, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Brazil, and Central America, but is now also being grown as far north as Texas and in subtropical areas of Asia, such as India. It is known for being extremely rich in vitamin C, almost as much as camu camu, although it also contains vitamins A, B, B, and B, as well"
"parviflora"" Alston, and ""Rhodomyrtus tomentosa"" (Aiton) Wight. Common names include Ceylon hill gooseberry (English), Downy myrtle (English-Florida), Downy rose myrtle (English-Florida), Feijoa (French), Hill gooseberry (English), Hill guava (English), Isenberg bush (English-Hawaii), Myrte-groseille (French), Kemunting (Malaysia), Gangrenzi (China) and Rose myrtle (English-Florida). It has shown promise as a fire retardant species for use in fire breaks in the Himalayas. It is a popular ornamental plant in gardens in tropical and subtropical areas, grown for its abundant flowers and sweet, edible fruit. The fruit can be made into pies and jams, or used in salads. In Phú Quốc, Vietnam, the fruits"
"including clammy cherries, glue berries, sebesten, or snotty gobbles. In India, the fruits of local species are used as a vegetable, raw, cooked, or pickled, and are known by many names, including ""lasora"" in Hindi. One such species is fragrant manjack (""C. dichotoma""), which is called ""gunda"" or ""tenti dela"" in Hindi and ""lasura"" in Nepali. The fruit of the Fragrant Manjack is called ""phoà-pò·-chí"" (破布子), 樹子仔, or 樹子(Pe̍h-ōe-jī: chhiū-chí) in Taiwan where they are eaten pickled. The white, gooey inner pulp of the fruits is traditionally used to make glue. The wood of several ""Cordia"" species is commercially harvested."
"third largest fruit of the Annona family after the junglesop and the soursop. The wood of the biribá tree is durable and suitable for boat construction. Young biribá trees are traditionally used as the main bow of the Afro-Brazilian instrument berimbau, named after the biribá tree. Rollinia deliciosa Rollinia deliciosa is a species of flowering plant in the custard-apple family, Annonaceae, that is native to tropical South America. It is cultivated for its edible fruits, commonly known as biribá or wild sugar-apple, throughout the world's tropics and subtropics. The Brazilian name, ""biribá"" has become somewhat well known. Nonetheless, the fruits"