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Smooth stems, with many protuberances, greyish. Alternate leaves, composite with paired leaflets, from 3" to 7". long. Leaflets 1" to 2", bright green above, coriaceous, with short stalk. Flowers without corolla, of three diferent types: male ( only with five stamens), female ( with a single pistil ) and hermaphrodite ( a combination of both previous elements). The fruit is a pod, indehiscent, till 9" long, dark brown in full maturity.The seeds are embedded in the thick fleshy sugar-rich pods. The seeds, all being the same size, are used as weights in eastern Mediterranean countries (the word "carat" comes from the Arabic name of the seeds). Cultivated in the Mediterranean warm regions of calcareous soils and naturalized in dry, rocky places . Carob is cultivated for its abundance of pods, rich in sugar when ripe, which are used for the production of alcohol or ground with the seeds to make carob bean meal for animal feed. The seeds are extremely hard; unless ground before feeding they are not digestible.