Re: Tree Identification

I'm sorry Richard but we have many Carob trees (Ceratonia siliqua) here in Minorca and I don´t think the picture sended by Moira belongs to this specie...

However, unfortunately I have no idea which tree we're talking about...

Regards

Juan García
Garden designer
Minorca, Balearic Islands
Spain

Richard Dufresne wrote:
At 08:55 AM 2/18/2003 +1300, you wrote:
  
Hi Folks
A call to identify a tree from the Hobby Greenhouse list has me stumped.
This is the description:-

"I came home from Costa Rica with a seed from a tree which has a very
interesting leaf structure.  The seeds are lima bean sized and grow in
large brown pods about 8 inches long.  The pods are sold at roadside
stands
as a delicacy.  The seed coating is delicious.   The leaf starts out
looking normal enough, but  keeps growing at the tip into a  "Y" shape.
I
have posted a picture of it on my web
site:    http://home.usadatanet.net/~sculp/Greenhouse/Unknown.JPG."

The description certainly sounds like some sort of legume, but the
foliage does not look leguminous to me.

Ideas anybody?

Moira
    
Carob tree, perhaps?

http://www.unifi.it/project/ueresgen29/ds16.htm

Ceratonia siliqua L.

Richard F. Dufresne
313 Spur Road
Greensboro, North Carolina  27406 USA
336-674-3105
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