plant

Carob

Nature

The named Ceratonia siliqua locust-bean of Mediterranean food and measure speech. Not cacao as the Lots ritual drink tree, and not mesquite as New World Prosopis.

Also known as St John's bread · Locust bean · Ceratonia siliqua

  • Carob is used in Medicine.

    Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica lists the carob / ceratonia pod among food-drugs with astringent fruit speech. A named carob in that handbook, not cacao as a New-World chocolate tree and not a modern carob-candy dump.

    from Pedanius Dioscorides · De Materia Medica, 1st century CE

    used in · sourced · documented

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