EN--The carob tree is evergreen, long-lived, polygamous, monoecious or dioecious, Arrack native of the Mediterranean (especially Syria).
Kastanofaio bark, thin, dense canopy usually spherical, with winged leaves 4 to 10 leaflets intact, leathery and glossy dark green above, beneath ochroprasino, heavy smell of flowers without petals, small, many in axillary or lateral double trusses usually reddish with small calyx greenish pentalovo, efptoto, five stamens, male flowers in long, short and normally barren females and hermaphrodites, ovarian and small males with large bivalve stigma in females.The fruit of our well known carob, carob or redbud, legumes length is 10 to 30 cm and a width of 2 to 3 cm exocarp brown, leathery, mesocarp fleshy, juicy seeds and 10 to 16 aftooeidi, flattened, keramochroma, hard, shiny, each one in a transverse cavity.The carob tree is a kind of forest, agricultural, industrial and klopistiko. The wood charcoal gives excellent quality of the kardioxylo used in furniture, wood carving, and turning the cooperage and the bark and leaves of the vrysodepsia and dyeing. The rich sugar fruits are nutritious fodder, but are becoming precious and human consumption in bad times.Also used for Friday liqueurs and medicines for cough and chronic vrochitidas. The seeds of the carob are a valuable industrial material. Of those prepared using cellulose for the manufacture of photographic plates and other objects. Also prepared dyeing and adhesives suitable for vrysodepsia dyeing and polishing of various vegetable substances. Also obtained by pressing oil used in soap making. The carob though not thermovio plant can withstand occasional low temperatures 2-3rd C below zero. Easily grow and flourish in all soils except liquids and destitute. In Greece usually grow sporadically and rarely in systematic plantations, mainly in Crete, the Aegean islands and the Peloponnese. The fruiting usually begins 6-7 year and continues for many years. The ripening of the fruit takes nearly a year since becoming the Fall blooming until August of next year begin to fall the ripe fruits anymore. The beans themselves posted or beating the trees are collected and after drying in sheds or in special furnaces stored in areas that have been disinfected insecticides suitable for extermination of harmful insects. The carob tree is affected by many plant pests and insects that control them are quite difficult. However, appropriate to the disease, regular cleaning of trees, spreading the various injuries to antikryptogamika drugs (blue vitriol, green stone) or insecticides, vaccines or sealant, burning patient tissue and application of various insecticides on the ground, to destroy larvae.