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Pistacia lentiscus (also lentisk or mastic) is a dioecious evergreen shrub or small tree of the genus Pistacia native to the Mediterranean Basin.It grows up to 4 m (13 ft) tall and is cultivated for its aromatic resin, mainly on the Greek island of Chios, around the Turkish town of Çeşme [2] [3] and northern parts of Iraq.
Pistacia atlantica is a species of pistachio tree known by the English common name Kurdish bīnka/banê, Mt. Atlas mastic tree, Atlas pistachio, Atlantic pistacio, Atlantic terebinth and Cyprus turpentine tree. P. atlantica has three subspecies or varieties which have been described as atlantica, cabulica, and mutica.
Mastic tree is a common name for several plants and may refer to: Pistacia lentiscus (Anacardiaceae) – mastic – Mediterranean region. Source of mastic gum. Sideroxylon foetidissimum (Sapotaceae) – yellow mastic or false mastic – Caribbean region and Central America; Terminalia eriostachya (Combretaceae) – black mastic – Cuba and ...
Mastic resin from Pistacia lentiscus. Pistacia is a genus of flowering plants in the cashew family, Anacardiaceae.It contains 10 to 20 species that are native to Africa and Eurasia from the Canary Islands, all of Africa, and southern Europe, warm and semidesert areas across Asia, and North America from Guatemala to Mexico, as well as southern Texas.
The terebinth is a deciduous flowering plant belonging to the cashew family, Anacardiaceae; a small tree or large shrub, it grows to 10 m (33 ft) tall.The leaves are compound, 10–20 cm (3.9–7.9 in) long, odd pinnate with five to eleven opposite glossy oval leaflets, the leaflets 2–6 cm (0.79–2.36 in) long and 1–3 cm (0.39–1.18 in) broad.
The Mastichodendro, (Pistacia lentiscus 'Chia'), sometimes called the Mastic Tree of Chios, Pixari or Chian lentisk, is a cultivated variety of the Mastic tree or the Lentisk (Pistacia lentiscus L.). The Mastichodendro is found only on the southern quarter of the Greek island of Chios , in a series of 24 villages called " Mastichochoria ".
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The genus Pistacia (which includes the pistachio and mastic tree) is now included, but was previously placed in its own family, the Pistaciaceae. [3] The cashew family is more abundant in warm or tropical regions with only a few species living in the temperate zones. [4] Mostly native to tropical Americas, Africa and India.