BOTANICAL RECORD
Averrhoa carambola L.
Star fruit · Carambola · Oxalidaceae
Overview
About the illustration
Generated botanical watercolor representing the species: whole tree, compound leaves, flowers, fruits and star-shaped cross-section. Interpretative illustration; not a photograph of the Odo star-fruit tree or identification evidence.
Original ↗- Growth form
- Evergreen fruit tree
- At Odo Valley
- One tree planted around 2023, beginning to bear fruit
- In the library
- Local plantings
- Botanical origin in Ghana
- Introduced to Ghana
- Location
- Odo Valley · Busua · Ghana
- Known date or period
- 2026-10 · Around 2023
Field note
One star-fruit tree planted by JB at Odo Valley around 2023, beginning to bear fruit in October 2026. On 6 October 2026, JB reported planting it about three years earlier. This is time since planting, not the tree’s age. Cultivar, planting-material origin, propagation method, exact location, exact planting date and yield are unrecorded.
Record sources 6
Sources and origins
Averrhoa carambola — Agroforestree Database
- Author or institution
- World Agroforestry
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-10-06
General reference; family and native range here follow Kew’s current treatment.
Carambola Growing in the Florida Home Landscape
- Author or institution
- University of Florida IFAS Extension
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-10-06
Florida horticultural guidance to adapt to Busua; no Ghanaian calendar or yield is inferred.
Averrhoa carambola — Plants of the World Online
- Author or institution
- Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-10-06
Taxonomic and geographic reference; does not document the Odo specimen.
Why You Should Avoid Eating Starfruit
- Author or institution
- National Kidney Foundation
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-10-06
Warning for people with kidney disease.
Averrhoa carambola — Flora & Fauna Web
- Author or institution
- National Parks Board, Singapore
- Source link
- View source ↗
- Type
- Documentary source
- Date accessed
- 2026-10-06
Species description and uses; no medicinal efficacy is established here.
JB — star-fruit tree planted at Odo Valley
- Author or institution
- JB
- Publication year
- 2026
- Type
- Reported observation
- Geographic origin
- Odo Valley · Busua · Ghana
- Date accessed
- 2026-10-06
- Provenance and context
- Statement on 6 October 2026: one tree planted about three years earlier, now beginning to bear fruit.
Statement date; planting around 2023 is an estimate only. No yield measurements or age at planting were provided.