Also called cucumber tree and pickle tree because of its elongated green fruit, bilimbi (Averrhoa bilimbi) is a Pan-Tropical evergreen tree thought to be native to Indonesia. A relative of star fruit ...

The old bilimbi tree in our school yard was always crawling with children. They’d swarm the tree for its sour fruit, borne in great abundance all through the year. The bullet-shaped fruit would taste ...

Slice the bilimbi, put into a bowl and pour over just enough water to cover. Stir in 2 teaspoons salt and leave for 30 minutes or longer, then rinse and squeeze out as much moisture as possible from ...

Bilimbi is a fruit unknown to many Bangladeshis; the same goes for jara lebu — a Sylheti citrus. Both these find a new avatar, along with local tomatoes, being transformed into sundried ones, coming ...

First cousin of the star fruit tree (Carambola) bilimbi is known as cucumber tree because its edible fruit resemble gherkins. This 20-to-45-foot species (Averrhoa bilimbi) is native to Indonesia and ...