Wednesday Word: Carambola

[calzephyr]

Carambola - noun.

You probably know the carambola already--it's star fruit produced by Averrhoa carambola trees. Native to tropical Southeast Asia, star fruit can be eaten raw or cooked.

By Salil Kumar Mukherjee - Own work, CC0, Link

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[calzephyr]

That's the tricky thing with plants--there's usually more than one with the same name out there!

[full_metal_ox]

Which is what makes scientific names crucial.

Plantain (Plantago major) grows in Alberta:



I’m fairly confident that plantain (Musa x paradisiaca) doesn’t: