Averrhoa
Averrhoa > |
If this plant info box on watering; zones; height; etc. is mostly empty you can click on the edit tab and fill in the blanks!
Read about Averrhoa in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
|
---|
Averrhoa (after Ayerrhoes, the Arabian physician). Oxalidaceae. Tropical fruit trees, cultivated in India and China, and sometimes grown under glass for ornament. Leaves alternate, odd-pinnate; lfts. alternate, ovate- acuminate, entire, stalked, sensitive: fls. borne on the naked sts. and branches, minute, fragrant, rose-colored to reddish purple in axillary or lateral cymes which are often panicle-like; calyx red; corolla campanulate; petals 5. See N. Amer. Fl. 25:57 (1907). A. Bilimbi, Linn. Cucumber Tree. Bilimbi. Height 20-60 ft.: lfts. usually 31—45 pairs: fls. red, in longer clusters than the above and borne on branchlets from the hard wood: fr. smaller than the Carambola. cucumber-shaped, smooth, green rind, and acid pulp. Extensively cult. in S. Amer. P.M. 15, p. 231. Rheede, Hort. Mal. 3, pl. 45:46. Lam. Encyc. pi. 385.
|
Cultivation
Propagation
Pests and diseases
Varieties
Gallery
References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
External links
- w:Averrhoa. Some of the material on this page may be from Wikipedia, under the Creative Commons license.
- Averrhoa QR Code (Size 50, 100, 200, 500)