| Scientific name: | Averrhoa bilimbi* |
| Family name: | OXALIDACEAE |
| English name: | Bilimbi |
| Local name: | Bilin |
| Description: | Small tree, 3-10 m tall; young parts and petioles velvety with soft rusty brown hairs. Leaves with 11-35 pinnae; the lower pinnae 1.2-3 x 0.6-2.2 cm, the upper 3-10 x 2-4 cm, pubscent; petiole 2-6 cm long, enlarged at the base; rachis 4-40 cm; petiolules 3-8 mm long, tomentose. Inflorescences 2-15 cm long, mainly cauliflorus. Flowers in fascicles; petals dark red-purple. Berry fleshy, 4-6 cm long, about 2.5 cm broad, with 5 blunt longitudinal ridges or terete, greenish yellow when ripe, very acidic. Seeds mostly 2-5 in each loculus, white, 6-8 mm long. |
| Status: | Only under cultivation |
| Edible parts: | Fruit |
| Ayurvedic usage: Treatment for-
PARTS USED IN TREATMENT:
source by instituteofayurveda.org
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