Look what I just grew!!

[grahamw48]

Excuse me....while we're on the subject of plants:

We had a tree in our back garden/yard about 20 feet tall with 'pinnate' leaves, and a normal type of woody bark, but out of the trunk grew lots of what looked like miniature cucumbers (about 2-3" in length).
They were quite sour to taste.

I used to slice them up and add them to my curries.

I don't think they were poisonous.

Can someone tell me what they were please ?

[Terpe]

....Can someone tell me what they were please ?

Sounds like it could be the 'Cucumber Tree'
(Kamias – Scientific name: Averrhoa bilimbi)


Got some highly interesting uses:-

- Skin diseases, especially with pruritus: Reduce the leaves to a paste and apply
tolerably warm to areas of affected skin.
- Post-partum and rectal inflammation: Infusion of leaves.
- Mumps, acne, and localized rheumatic complaints: Paste of leaves applied to affected
areas.
- Warm paste of leaves also used for pruritus.
- Cough and thrush: Infusion of flowers, 40 grams to a pint of boiling water, 4 glasses
of tea daily.
- Fever: Fruit as a cooling drink.
- The fruit has been used for a variety of maladies: beriberi, cough, prevention of
scurvy.
- Infusion of leaves also drank as a protective tonic after childbirth.

Others
- Fruit used to remove stains from clothing and for washing hands.
- A common seasoning for sweets and pickling.

Uses Sourced from:-
http://www.filipinoherbshealingwonde...com/kamias.htm

[raynaputi]

Sounds like it could be the 'Cucumber Tree'
(Kamias – Scientific name: Averrhoa bilimbi)


Got some highly interesting uses:-

- Skin diseases, especially with pruritus: Reduce the leaves to a paste and apply
tolerably warm to areas of affected skin.
- Post-partum and rectal inflammation: Infusion of leaves.
- Mumps, acne, and localized rheumatic complaints: Paste of leaves applied to affected
areas.
- Warm paste of leaves also used for pruritus.
- Cough and thrush: Infusion of flowers, 40 grams to a pint of boiling water, 4 glasses
of tea daily.
- Fever: Fruit as a cooling drink.
- The fruit has been used for a variety of maladies: beriberi, cough, prevention of
scurvy.
- Infusion of leaves also drank as a protective tonic after childbirth.

Others
- Fruit used to remove stains from clothing and for washing hands.
- A common seasoning for sweets and pickling.

Uses Sourced from:-
http://www.filipinoherbshealingwonde...com/kamias.htm

I used to eat lots of kamias when I was a kid..we just get it from our school's kamias tree and while playing, I was nibbling a kamias...hahaha

[fred]

They cut this up and stick it in my ommelette... Makes me bitter!