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Carob pods are about 1/3 to 1/2 sugar by weight, and this sugar can be extracted into a syrup. [48] In Malta, a carob syrup (ġulepp tal-ħarrub) is made out of the pods. Carob syrup is also used in Crete, [49] and Cyprus exports it. [50] In Egypt and Palestine, crushed pods are heated to caramelize their sugar, then water is added and boiled ...
Ceratonia / ˌ s ɛr ə ˈ t oʊ n i ə /, [2] also known as carobs, is a 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 ...
Espinal is a savanna plant community, composed of widely spaced clumps of trees, predominantly Espino (Vachellia caven) and spiny carob tree (Prosopis chilensis), with an understory of annual grasses introduced from the Mediterranean Basin in the 16th century. Much of the espinal was formerly matorral, degraded over the centuries by intensive ...
The family Fabaceae includes a number of plants that are common in agriculture including Glycine max , Phaseolus (beans), Pisum sativum , Cicer arietinum , Vicia faba , Medicago sativa , Arachis hypogaea , Ceratonia siliqua (carob), Trigonella foenum-graecum , and Glycyrrhiza glabra .
Ectomyelois ceratoniae, the locust bean moth, more ambiguously known as "carob moth", is a moth of the family Pyralidae.It has a nearly cosmopolitan distribution. The larvae are translucent white, with the internal organs visible from the outside. They feed on the seeds and pods of a wide range of plants, including Punica granatum, Citrus fruit, Pistacia vera, Juglans regia, Prunus dulcis ...
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 ]
Increasingly frequent and severe heat waves in the Southwest are damaging some desert plants known for thriving in harsh conditions. Saguaro cacti and agave have both suffered in sweltering ...
The North Saharan steppe and woodlands is a desert ecoregion, in the deserts and xeric shrublands biome, that forms the northern edge of the Sahara.It extends east and west across Northern Africa, south of the Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe ecoregion of the Maghreb and Cyrenaica, which is part of the Mediterranean forests, woodlands, and scrub biome.