Pistacia vera, L.

Indigenous in the Orient, as far as Persia. A deciduous tree, 30 feet high, yielding the Pistacia Nuts of commerce, remarkable for their green almond-like kernels. The likewise deciduous Mediterranean Pistacia Terebinthus, L., yielding the Chio Turpentine, the P. Atlantica, Desf., and the evergreen South European Pistacia Lentiscus, L., furnishing the mastix, grow rarely to the size of large trees.