Carambola

Carambola, or COROMANDEL GOOSEBERRY, is the fruit of Averrhoa Carambola, a small East Indian evergreen tree belonging to the Oxalidaceæ. Its congener, A. Bilimbi, yields the acid fruit known as the Bilimbi or Blimbing, and both species have been introduced into cultivation in the West Indies. They exhibit in a tolerably marked degree that sensitiveness familiar in other members of the order. See SLEEP OF PLANTS.