B17

Variety of Starfruit · Averrhoa carambola

Sweet, juicy Malaysian clone with deep-orange flesh.

Also known as: Bumbong 17

🇲🇾 Malaysia

Taste & characteristics

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Large fruit with deep-orange skin and sweet, juicy, low-acid flesh.

Productive tree of the Malaysian B-series, widely planted commercially.

Consistently high yields.

Together with B10 a mainstay of Malaysian cultivation.

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