Starfruit , also acknowledge as carambola , is one of my favorite fruits .
This last week my mom sent up a box of them fromThe Great South Florida Food Forest Project .
A giving of starfruit from the tropics
Starfruit will usually bear two craw a yr in non - freezing climates . They ca n’t handle the cold well at all , entail it ’s almost impossible for me to grow them here in North Florida . I have a tree diagram inmy greenhousebut the fruit is only so - so . They ’re just better when planted in the earth .
The one from which the beautiful fruit above were reap was set 3 or 4 eld ago . It ’s now consistently loaded with fruit .
If you ’ve only had starfruit from the grocery stock , you have n’t sample starfruit . Those bland and reeking things are terrible . sassy starfruit is break loose with juice and has a gratifying - prostitute tropic goodness that ’s very refreshing . I really love them with breakfast .
A gift of starfruit from the tropics
Carambola tree diagram are n’t usually all that orotund . They spread sideways and have attractive bark and feathery leaf . Some years ago I stood spellbind beneath a 15′ tree in a friend ’s railyard , looking up towards the sky . The sight of the semi - semitransparent yield hanging like Formosan lanterns in the tropic sunshine was transcendently beautiful . I could have just sat down and stay there for hours , staring up through the branches … but my friends get down to think I ’m insane when I do things like that , so I did n’t .
If you dwell inside the zone where starfruit can be grow , develop one . They ’re productive , beautiful and delectable and require very little care .
And the fruit attend like this :
A gift of starfruit from the tropics
Magical .
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A gift of starfruit from the tropics
A gift of starfruit from the tropics
