Carob Botanical Art

Carob
Ceratonia siliqua

Carob Botanical Art

Remains of horny pods were found in the 1st century ruins of Pompeii (Zohary, 2002), where carob trees perished alongside our noble friend Pliny the Elder.

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Remains of horny pods were found in the 1st century ruins of Pompeii, where carob trees perished
alongside our noble friend Pliny the Elder.

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Joaquín Sorolla, Algarrobo, Carob tree, 1899

A Lebanon café. Pleasantly situated by a mountain stream and sheltered by the dense foliage of the carouba trees (Ceratonia siliqua).

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A Lebanon café. Pleasantly situated by a mountain stream and sheltered by the dense foliage of the carouba trees (Ceratonia siliqua). The presence of one of these wayside resting places always indicates a good site for an encampment, for it is sure to be near a supply of good water.

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Carob-bean, or Saint John's Bread
The Encyclopedia of Food by Artemas Ward, 1923

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The carob bean tree, Ceratonia siliqua

Carrube Johannisbrotbäume (Ceratonia siliqua). Sicilia, Italia

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Carrube Johannisbrotbäume (Ceratonia siliqua), Sicilia, Italia

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Fig. ¹ Dargent, Jean-Édouard. "Mort de Pline." Histoires des météores, Gallica, via The Botanist in the Kitchen, 1870, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AHistoireDesMétéores_-_p419.jpg. Accessed 31 Mar. 2020.
Fig. ²Sorolla, Joaquín. "Algarrobo, Carob tree." Wikimedia Commons, 1899, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ceratonia_siliqua#/media/File:Joaquin_Sorolla_y_Bastida_-_Algarrobo.jpg. Accessed 31 Mar. 2020.
Fig. ³Fenn, Harry. "A Lebanon café. Pleasantly situated by a mountain stream and sheltered by the dense foliage of the carouba trees (Ceratonia siliqua)." Dorot Jewish Division, The New York Public Library Digital Collections, The New York Public Library, 1881-1884, digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-5ec8-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99. Accessed 31 Mar. 2020.
Fig. ⁴"Carob-bean, or Saint John's Bread." The Encyclopedia of Food by Artemas Ward, Internet Archives, 1923, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Carob-bean,_or_Saint_John's_Bread,_illustration_from_The_Encyclopedia_of_Food_by_Artemas_Ward.jpg. Accessed 31 Mar. 2020.
Fig. ⁵ Vietz, F. B. "Ceratonia siliqua." Icones plantarum medico-oeconomico-technologicarum, vol. 2: t. 195, Missouri Botanical Garden, St. Louis, U.S.A., 1800, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=152385. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
Fig. ⁶ Sargent. "Ceratonia siliqua." The garden, vol. 13: 424, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, U.S.A., 1871, Plant Illustrations, plantillustrations.org/illustration.php?id_illustration=199180. Accessed 1 Apr. 2020.
Fig. ⁷ Thielke, Wolfgang. "Carrube Johannisbrotbäume (Ceratonia siliqua). Sicilia, Italia." Flickr, 27 Sept. 2014, Public Domain, www.flickr.com/photos/wolfgangthielke/16815528035/. Accessed 6 Jan. 2021.

Published 1 Apr. 2020 LR. Last update 6 Jan. 2021 LR