Botanical family
Oxalidaceae
Wood sorrel family
10 species in this family
Plants with trifoliate leaves that fold at night (nyctinasty). Sour taste from oxalic acid. Includes wood sorrel and carambola (star fruit).
- Leaf arrangement: alternate
- Leaf type: trifoliate
- Growth forms: herb/shrub/tree
- Inflorescence: cymose umbel
- Fruit: capsule/berry
Species in OXALIDACEAE
- Bilimbi, Tree Sorrel, KamiasAverrhoa bilimbi
- Carombola apple, Star fruit treeAverrhoa carambola
- Slender Tree PlantBiophytum reinwardtii
- Little Tree Plant, Sensitive plantBiophytum sensitivum
- Common Sorrel, Indian Sorrel, Yellow wood, Creeping oxalis, creeping wood-sorrel, IndaOxalis corniculata
- Large-Flowered Pink SorrelOxalis debilis
- Broad-leaved SorelOxalis latifolia
- Love plant, Purple shamrockOxalis triangularis
- Biophytum candolleanum
- Biophytum nervifolium
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