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  2. Carob - Wikipedia

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    Carob trees can survive long periods of drought, but to grow fruit, they need 500 to 550 millimetres (20 to 22 in) of rainfall per year. [19] They prefer well-drained, sandy loams and are intolerant of waterlogging, but the deep root systems can adapt to a wide variety of soil conditions and are fairly salt-tolerant (up to 3% in soil). [19]

  3. Prosopis pallida - Wikipedia

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    Prosopis pallida is a species of mesquite tree. It has the common names kiawe (/ k iː ˈ ɑː v eɪ /) [2] (in Hawaii), huarango (in its native South America) and American carob, as well as "bayahonda" (a generic term for Prosopis), "algarrobo pálido" (in some parts of Ecuador and Peru), and "algarrobo blanco" (usually used for Prosopis alba).

  4. Tara spinosa - Wikipedia

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    Tara spinosa, commonly known as tara , [1] also known as Peruvian carob [2] or spiny holdback, [2] is a small leguminous tree or thorny shrub native to Peru. [3] T. spinosa is cultivated as a source of tannins based on a galloylated quinic acid structure. [ 4 ]

  5. Prosopis alba - Wikipedia

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    Prosopis alba is a medium-sized tree, measuring between 5 and 15 m (16 and 49 ft), in height and 1 m (3.3 ft) in diameter, though such tall specimens occur very rarely at present. The trunk is short and the treetop is globular, sometimes reaching 10 m (33 ft) in diameter. The bark is thin, brown-grayish in colour, with streaks, and it has ...

  6. Theobroma cacao - Wikipedia

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    Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (6–12 m (20–39 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae. [1][3] Its seeds, cocoa beans, are used to make chocolate liquor, cocoa solids, cocoa butter and chocolate. [4] Although the tree is native to the tropics of the Americas, the largest producer of cocoa beans in 2022 was ...

  7. Ceratonia - Wikipedia

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    Siliqua Duhamel (1755), nom. superfl. Ceratonia / ˌsɛrəˈtoʊniə / [2] is small genus of flowering trees in the pea family, Fabaceae, endemic to the Mediterranean region and the Middle East. Its best known member is the carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua), which is cultivated for its edible pods and has been widely introduced to regions with ...

  8. Agriculture in Cyprus - Wikipedia

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    Agriculture in Cyprus constituted the backbone of its economy when it achieved its independence in 1960. [1] It mostly consisted of small farms, and sometimes even subsistence farms. [1] During the 1960s, irrigation projects made possible vegetable and fruit exports; increasingly commercialized farming was able to meet the demands for meat ...

  9. Agriculture in Portugal - Wikipedia

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    Pêra Rocha (pears), Maçã de Alcobaça (apples), Cova da Beira's cherries, a number of chestnut producing regions, and the Laranja do Algarve (oranges), are examples of well-known Portuguese certified products. Portugal is the largest producer of carob in the world and the 5th largest producer of tomato in Europe, mostly at Alentejo.

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