Clove procassing

Cloves are the unopened flower buds of the evergreen tree Eugenia caryophyllus. The tree is native to the Moluccas (Spice Islands), which are part of the Indonesian islands. It was taken to Mauritius and then on to the islands of Zanzibar and Pemba on the East African coast during the 18th Century. Zanzibar and Pemba are now the world’s largest producers of cloves.