Crossword puzzle clue "pod bearing tree"

a genus of thorny leguminous trees and shrubs, found esp. in arid regions of Australia and tropical Africa

(Nahuatl) a small evergreen tree of South America and the West Indies, from the fruit of which cocoa and chocolate are prepared

CAROB, (Arabic) the sweet-flavoured seed of an evergreen tree, aka locust bean

any tree of the genus Alnus, related to the birches