Icecream beans are fairly unusual here. They’re nitrogen fixers, like honey locusts and wattles, and reasonably fast growing. Apparently, the sweet pulp inside the seed pod, between the seeds, tastes a lot like vanilla icecream. I’m not sure how similar to icecream they will actually taste – after all, carob is meant to taste like chocolate, and it sort of does.. at dusk, with the light behind it. But icecream flavoured or not, the pulp of icecream beans is almost universally described as tasty, so I’m looking forward to trying it. In about three years when the trees start the bear.