Averrhoa
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Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture |
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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.
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- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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