LOTS OF BILIMBI THIS WEEK

Lots of bilimbis on my front garden...

Although the weather is so dry and hot.

The very hot weather make  lots of fruits get fallen too. 

Some of the fruits I have shared with my friends and neighbors.

The flowers looks so beautiful.

The tree produce both of flowers and fruits continuously along year round.

A fresh juice in a very hot day...

FRUIT OF THE WEEK - BILIMBI

This week I get new Vitamin source from  my front yard.
Some of my bilimbi or cucumber tree (Averrhoa bilimbi) are ripe.   
Maybe you still remember the flowers on my older post.

flowers and fruits

hanging...

The fruit is usually used for pickles, curries, chutney, jam or preserves in syrup.
In Java, the fruit is also used to clean metal and remove stains.
In traditional medicine, we use bilimbi to treat skin disorders, fevers, cough, acne, toothache, also to reduce high blood tension and control obesity. 

The fruit is quite sour.
But the flavor is good enough.
And high in vitamin A and C.

I think bilimbi is a very useful plant.
We can use the leaves, flowers and fruits for a lot of functions.

I think I have to make a special dish that made from this fruit.
Or a simple fresh juice...

FLOWER OF THE WEEK - BILIMBI

There are something different on my bilimbi.
I'm finding red-maroon color on that bark.
Wow... my bilimbi is blooming.
That barks are full of flowers.
I have a bilimbi on my front yard.
Bilimbi (Averrhoa bilimbi) is well known as cucumber tree or tree sorrel.
In Indonesia it's called belimbing wuluh or belimbing asam.
That flowers have a lot of usefulness.
We usually use that flower  infusion to reduce cough, gingivitis and thrush.
High vitamin C source...
If we put the red flowers onto the hot-warm water, the soaking water will change into reddish color. 
That's red flowers are sought as the ingredients of natural red dye for traditional textiles.
The leaf infusion is a remedy for coughs and is taken after childbirth as a tonic. 
Bilimbi leaves decoction is taken to relieve rectal inflammation, rheumatism, high blood pressure and parotitis.

A cluster of flowers...

Flower... flower... flower...

Flowering bark

Green leaves with reddish shoot