Carambola contains many ingredients beneficial to human health, such as sugar, vitamin A, vitamin C, various fibers and acids. Carambola also has great medicinal value, and has a good curative effect on treating aphtha, chronic headache, traumatic injury and swelling and pain.

The fiber and acid contained in it can relieve visceral heat accumulation, clear dryness and moisten intestines, and pass stool. It is the most suitable heat-clearing fruit for people with lung and stomach fever, and carambola is also an expert in treating sore throat.

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Main value

economy

There are five kinds of materials. Generally used for small farm tools, mainly used for eating fruits and processing dyes to make salty and sweet preserves.

garden

This kind of fruit has a strange and beautiful color. It is often used for roadside, wall or building cultivation in gardens, and can also be used for balcony and roof greening in large pots.

growing environment

Growing on roadsides, in sparse forests or gardens. Warm and humid tree species. Areas with frost and cold cannot grow. It grows well in the middle and low altitude areas with annual average temperature of 20-26℃, extreme minimum temperature of 2-7℃ and annual precipitation1000-2400 mm.

I like light, but I don't like some shadows either. It likes to grow in moist and fertile soil, but it can also grow and bear fruit under dry and barren site conditions, but the growth situation is very different, with many fallen flowers and small fruits. The suitable soil is red soil or yellow-red latosol, and the surface layer is sandy loam over 5-20 cm.

breeding method

sow seeds

The flowering and fruiting period varies from region to region. Generally, it blooms in Hainan from February to March, and the fruit begins to ripen in early June and ripens in July, and the fruit turns from dark green to waxy yellow or yellowish green. Overripe will naturally fall to the ground.

The pulp is soft, juicy and perishable. Wash the pulp immediately after picking and put it indoors to dry in the shade. The paving thickness should not exceed 0.5 cm. It is best to spread it on a cloth to dry. Can be planted. The 1000-grain weight is 71.2g.?

Seed epidermis is sweet and sour, so attention should be paid to prevent the harm of ants when sowing. Sowing, sowing per square meter 180g. After sowing, compact with wooden boards and cover with fine soil, and shade with sunshade net to keep the bed surface moist. Generally unearthed after 10- 15 days, the germination rate is about 85%.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-carambola