Starfruit’s sharp refreshing acidic tang—tasting like rhubarb when green and tangerine when yellow to orange—lends itself to juices and marinades.

And the cross-section comes already decoratively shaped; the occasional specimen comes with more than five ribs, affording the opportunity to serve someone a Star of David or Faerie Star:



(Bonus Fun Fact: Damasonium alisma, a completely unrelated pond plant native to (and being brought back from extinction in) Britain, is also known as “starfruit”:

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