Eating too much carambola has certain nephrotoxicity. Eating too much carambola may cause kidney damage and hematuria. At the same time, eating too much carambola is easy to be poisoned, causing drowsiness, coma, diarrhea and other symptoms, and even coma is life-threatening. Therefore, eating too much carambola may also lead to renal failure.
Carambola originated in Southeast Asia and was introduced to China in Jin Dynasty. It was named "Tiao" because of hanging branches, "Yangtiao" because it came from overseas, and "Carambola" because of a clerical error.
Growing environment of carambola
Growing on roadsides, in sparse forests or gardens. Warm and humid tree species. Areas with frost and cold cannot grow. It grows well in the middle and low altitude areas with annual average temperature of 20-26℃, extreme minimum temperature of 2-7℃ and annual precipitation1000-2400 mm.
I like light, but I don't like some shadows either. It likes to grow in moist and fertile soil, but it can also grow and bear fruit under dry and barren site conditions, but the growth situation is very different, with many fallen flowers and small fruits. The suitable soil is red soil or yellow-red latosol, and the surface layer is sandy loam over 5-20 cm.