Carambola is also known as carambola, carambola and five-pointed star, and its scientific name is "five lotus seeds". Because its cross section looks like a five-pointed star, it is also called "star pear" abroad. The origin of carambola is traditionally thought to be produced in Malaysia and other parts of Southeast Asia. China was cultivated in Han Dynasty, and now it is in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other places. Asia, Southeast Asia, India; Widely cultivated in tropical areas such as America and Brazil. Taiwan Province Province was introduced from South China in about 1800, and maybe it was a mainland immigrant earlier. 1935 introduced Yoshijiro Sakurai from India, 1965 introduced Taiwan Province Agricultural Extension Center from Indonesia. Nowadays, a large number of economic fruits are planted in the central, southern and eastern parts of Taiwan Province Province, and there are also sporadic planting in various places. Carambola can be divided into sweet seeds and acid seeds. After cultivation or research, there are many varieties of carambola, which breaks the seasonal flowering and fruiting period and can be produced all year round. Fruit practices are born beside old branches or in axils of deciduous leaves, green or light green when unripe, and yellow-green to bright yellow when ripe. Data: Compendium of Materia Medica Li Shizhen: "Five fruits are picked in Lingnan and central Fujian, and the people in Fujian call them carambola. It is as big as a fist, its color is blue, yellow and green, and its shape is very strange. Shaped like a frog in the clan, it has edges on it, carved like a sword ridge, and its skin is crisp and soft. Its taste is sour and sweet, and over time, its heart is like a cockroach. " Jin Jihan of "South Grass" said: "The five-fold book is as big as papaya, yellow and ... has five sides. Southerners choose to fold their edges, hence the name. "