If this is the same fruit as the one called "Carambola", then it is extremely bitter. I first found the "Carambola" while driving to Galeota Point to work. The single tree sood on the right-hand side of the road, shortly after passing Grande Chiquito, south of S. Grande. I understand that it is dried, sweetened and used as a preserved fruit in fruit cakes at Christmas-time in Guyana.

The fruit and tree of Averrhoa bilimbi. A relative of the [w=five-finger]carambola or star fruit[/w], the tree produces an edible, green, five pomed, cucumber like fruit.

cornichon

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