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[Charles Paradise <machelp@attglobal.net>]

>   I would
> think it possible that in a town like Atlanta, someone from India might
> conceivably have a greenhouse with a bearing size tamarind.  (Somehow
> I
> doubt that they will have an 80 yr old carob tree in a pot, that' how
> long
> they take to crop.)
>  
But carob is on bonsai people's lists of preferred candidates for indoors
warm bonsai.  So its not impossible some arboretum or private bonsaid
collection COULD in fact have an 80-yr old carob of bearing age.

At Jamaica Plains Massachusetts Arnold Arboretum there are other bonsais more than 200 years old.

Charlie Paradise