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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 ]
Neltuma pallida (formerly Prosopis pallida) is a species of mesquite tree. [1] 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).
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 ...
Spanish settlers gave it that name because of its similarity to the European carob tree (Ceratonia siliqua). Other common names come from Guaraní , including ibopé and igopé . Neltuma 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 ...
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 ]
Forestry Commission (UK government department responsible for protection and expansion of Britain's forests and woodlands.) Elwes, Henry John, and Henry, Augustine, 1906 The trees of Great Britain & Ireland BHL Monograph.Includes rare introduced trees.Seven volumes and seven volumes of excellent black and white plates.
It is also variously called algarrobo dulce, algarrobo morado and algarrobo amarillo ("sweet", "purple" and "yellow" carob tree, respectively). The tree blossoms in September and October, and gives fruit from November to March. It grows together with the vinalillo tree (Prosopis vinalillo) and under the tops of the palm tree Copernicia alba ...
"Locust" comes from the Latin locusta, meaning both "locust" (the insect) and "lobster".By analogy with a Levantine use of the Greek word for the insect, akris, for the pods of the carob tree, which supposedly resembled it, the pod-bearing North American tree started to be called "locust" in the 1630s.