Star fruit is so impressive visually, but not super well known. Few fruits are as visually striking as the star fruit—a sweet-tart tropical fruit that cuts into perfect star-shaped slices. Yep, that's ...

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Well have you got the planting bug yet? I was driving along East Main in Ashland last week and I saw a bank temperature reading of 65 degrees in contrast to the week before of 9 degrees. Wow! Can ...

In this episode of In the Kitchen with Matt, I will show you how to cut and eat a Star Fruit or Carambola and I will do a ...

We have all seen it—that bright, waxy, five-angled fruit perched atop a cocktail or sliced into perfect stars for a tropical salad. For most of us, the star fruit (or carambola) is a childhood ...

The scientific name of star fruit is 'Averrhoa carambola'. It belongs to the Oxalidaceae family, which includes tropical plants known for their edible fruits. The tree is small to medium-sized and ...

At the end of the dry season in April and May, citrus fruits, mangos and avocados are just beginning to form young fruits here in Costa Rica. There is a fruit tree, however, that produces an abundance ...

Cover crops may increase sustainability of carambola groves. It's not just oranges that grow in Florida. Carambola, or star fruit as most in the United States call it, is gaining popularity. One ...

Grocery shopping with my children can be a game of dodgeball as I try to avoid the items they want to throw in the cart, but on a recent trip to the grocery store, my second-grader picked up a dragon ...