Fabulous Carambola Fruit Trees - Delicious

Fabulous Carambola Fruit Trees ( star fruit )

We are really enjoying these fabulous carambolas - Daleys Sweet Gold Carambola Star Fruit Tree, it is one of our home grown selections that produces an abundant crop of sweet, juicy, medium sized fruit. Best eaten fresh, straight off the tree.

We'd love it if you would like to share with us whatever it is you are enjoying out of your home orchard.

Buy Carambola Kembangan star Fruit Trees

Carambola Kembangan Star Fruit Tree

Star Fruit Tree Kembangan

I can vouch for the amazing taste of this grafted star fruit variety called Kembangan. Juicy to the extreme and such a strong full flavour. I have had some very special moments under Kembangan star fruit tree. Promoted as "dessert quality with few seeds" The tree crops by itself but also benefits when you have a few different carambola star fruits around. Easily kept human height in pots or in the ground via pruning & cincturing otherwise it will grow about 3-5m tall. Sensitive to frosts when young and always a good idea to net the tree before the fruit turns from green to this striking orange/yellow/star colour.

We have 44 baby Kembangans looking to move into backyards in Australia.

Kids Loving Pomegranates, Star Fruit in Daleys Exclusion Orchard

Jaia and Yaralee our 2 little Fruit Bats always love finding something fresh in our Exclusion Orchard. Pomegranate Tree and Star Fruit Tree are ripening now. Yarralea ate the whole Pomegranate one aril at a time, delicious!! #pomegranate #carambola #orchard #starfruit

Why It's Called the Star Fruit - The Grafted Carambola Tree Kary

Freshly juiced Carambola, perfect way to use this heavy cropping subtropical fruit tree. Adding a little ginger makes it even more delicious.

Carambola Starfruit Kary Tree - Averrhoa carambola

 #starfruit #carambola #freshjuice

Why It's Called the Star Fruit Tree

Carambola Trees with Pictures

Carambola Inside and Out What my carambola tree or Star Fruit Tree looks like from the outside. It has beautiful weeping foliage that hangs to the ground.

 

When I crawl in under the tree the bounty of fruit becomes visible, it is loaded with fruit.

 

 Carambolas are delicious eaten straight off the tree.

 

 or they can be sliced to reveal their beautiful star shape

The flowers are also beautiful they are small, pink and prolific

I love my carambola tree

Star Fruit - Carambola Kembangan Quick Flowering

Here is my 1 year old Carambola Kembangan. It is nicknamed the Star Fruit Tree because when you cut the fruit it looks like a star.

Mine is a grafted variety which I am growing in a pot. I am amazed how quickly and prolifically it is flowering at the moment. It has tripled in size since I got it and is one of my best performers so far second to my panama berry.

It is twice the price of a seedling Carambola tree but life is too short for seedling fruit trees as they take much longer to fruit.

One thing about the leaves is that they always seem to be drooping. Some people make the mistake of thinking it is laking water but this is not the case and is their natural position.

I have eaten a few star fruits in my life and by far the best tasting ones were the well known varieties. They are far more juicy and the flavour is less watery and fibrous.

Another thing about star fruit is they really do crop well. They do come into Australian supermarkets on occasions but usually not for long and you really do pay for them.

Another benefit of getting a well known variety such as the Grafted Kary Star Fruit and my Kembangan Star Fruit is that you only need one. Some varieties of Star fruit will flower but not fruit due to needing another variety to cross pollinate with.






More Information on the Star Fruit (Carambolas)
Buy Carambola Star Fruit - Mail Order to your door
A picture of them fruiting from Daleys Orchard - Amazing how well they crop
Forum: Star Fruit Discussion - Pollination Problems - Problems with flowering but not setting fruit for different varieties.
Plant Tag: Carambola or Star Fruit - Find out about cultural notes, soil types and ideal conditions.