Averrhoa bilimbi

 

Family: OXALIDACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Bilibi, Bilimbi, Chemmeenpuli, Chimbili, Irumbampuli, Keerichakka, Pulinchi, Vilimbi

English name(s): Bilimbi, Cucumber tree, Tree Sorrel, Kamias, Belimbing buloh

Habit: Tree

Flowering & Fruiting: March-May

Habitat: Cultivated

Description: Tree, to 15 m tall; young parts pale yellow to rusty-velvety. Leaves usually terminally tufted; rachises 15-55 cm long; leaflets 5-19 pairs, variable, acute to acuminate at apex, to 12 x 4 cm; lateral nerves 6-14 pairs. Panicles cauliflorous from tubercles on main trunk to ground level and on main leafless branches, fascicled and pendulous, to 18 cm long, rarely axillary; solitary and erect; pedicels 4-15 mm long; jointed near middle. Sepals elliptic to lanceolate or spatulate, acute or obtuse, 3-8 x 1.5-3 mm, sparsely puberulous outside near base, yellowish green to purplish green. Petals free, lanceolate-spatulate, 10-20 x 3-4 mm, glabrous inside, dark pink; claw 3-6 mm long. Stamens all fertile; filaments 2-12 mm long, unequal. Ovary ellipsoid, ca 4 mm long, densely appressed-pale-strigose; ovules 4-7 in each locule; styles to 9 mm long. Fruits cylindric, obtuse, obtusely angled, to 10 x 5 cm; seeds to 14, 6-7 x 4-6 mm, exarillate.

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