Bilimbi
விளிబిలింబి దోసഓർക്കാപുളി
Averrhoa bilimbi L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 15 m
- wide
- —
Oxalidaceae
Formerly Averrhoa abtusangulata, Averrhoa obtusangula
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Wet tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & E. MalesiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Useful Tropical Plants, one source
- Height
- 15 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, flowers, coldest it survives, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Chinese
- 三敛, 木胡瓜
- Simplified Chinese
- 三敛
- Tamil
- விளி
- Telugu
- బిలింబి దోస, బిలింబి దోశ, దోసచెట్టు
- Bangla
- বেলেম্বু, বিলিম্বি
- Malayalam
- ഓർക്കാപുളി, ഇരുമ്പൻപുളി, പുളിഞ്ചി
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Useful Tropical Plants, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Averrhoa bilimbi (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.