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pistaches
Pistacia
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 Mexico to warm and semidesert United States, such as Texas or California.
12 branches of this genus, most-observed first
mastic
speciesPistacia lentiscus
Chinese pistache
speciesPistacia chinensis
terebinth
speciesPistacia terebinthus
Mount Atlas mastic tree
speciesPistacia atlantica
Pistachio
speciesPistacia vera
Mexican Pistache
speciesPistacia mexicana
Pistacia × saportae
hybridPistacia × saportae
Pistacia weinmanniifolia
speciesPistacia weinmanniifolia
Wild Pistachio
speciesPistacia khinjuk
Persian Turpentine Tree
speciesPistacia eurycarpa
Pistacia aethiopica
speciesPistacia aethiopica
Pistacia falcata
speciesPistacia falcata
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.187
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.33
Garden of Health
1507 · p.265
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.282
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.287
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.826
Illustrations and Descriptions of Plants
Dominicus Chabrae · 1678 · p.701
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 34)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.8
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.326
Herbarium Portatile, Oder Behendes Kräuter- und Gewächs-Buch: Darinn nicht allein 1363. so wol Einheimische als Außländndische Kräuter mit Lateinisch und Deutscher Benennung abgebildet, sondern auch die meisten, so in der Medicin gebräuchlich, kürtzlich erkläret werden
Panckow, Thomas · 1656 · p.347
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 72301.