Carambola

Carambola fruit of a tree is a plant that originated from the tropical parts of America and then spread to many other tropical countries in the world including Indonesia. Form small starfruit tree, reaching 10 m high with a trunk that is not so big and has a diameter of only about 30 cm. In general, star fruit cultivars planted in the yard (home gardening yards), which is cultivated as a shade plant in the pages of the home. In the Americas, star fruit known as "star fruit" and a popular type of star fruit is favored by the people starfruit "Florida".

In plant taxonomy, leatherback are classified as follows:
Kingdom: Plantae (plants)
Division: Spermatphyta (seed plants)
Sub-division: Angiospermae (seeds enclosed)
Class: Dicotyledonae (two seed pieces)
Order: Oxalidales
Family: Oxalidaceae
Genus: Averrhoa
Species: Averrhoa carambola L. (Sweet starfruit)

Star fruit is the fruit of non-klimaterik so that harvesting of the fruit must be done when the fruit matures on the tree. Harvesting is usually done by looking at his skin color changes from green or yellowish-green to yellow or yellow-orange.

The maximum sugar content contained on the perfect yellow fruit, but fruit is very fragile, easily broken and can easily be injured. Therefore, the star fruit is usually harvested when its color changes to a halt. Yellow fruit with a 50-70% harder than the perfect fruit yellow or yellow-orange, fruit with this color considered a commercial maturity. The color of star fruit will continue to grow after harvest, however only a few changes in its quality.

Star fruit is classified into types of fruits that are not too sensitive to cold damage (chilling injury). However, during the cold storage held at a temperature of 0oC or 5oC for 2 and 6 weeks there are symptoms such as cold damage small spots on the surface of the skin and brown on all sides of ribs edge. The symptoms of this cold damage will increase along with the length of storage time. Fruits are harvested when still green will be more susceptible to cold damage.