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Pistacia chinensis Bunge
Family Anacardiaceae
Common name: Chinese Pistachio

Pistacia chinensis Bunge APNI*

Description: Deciduous tree to 20 m high, branchlets finely hairy; leaves turning crimson in autumn.

Leaves 10–25 cm long; leaflets 8–14, lanceolate, 5–9 cm long, 15–25 mm wide, apex long-acuminate, base asymmetric, margins entire, both surfaces ± glabrous except for scattered bristles along veins, lower surface not glaucous; petiole 4–10 cm long, petiolules c. 1 mm long.

Panicles 5–10 cm long, glabrous. Flowers yellowish green.

Drupe ± globose to ovoid, compressed laterally, 5–6 mm long, red finally turning purple.


Distribution and occurrence: Cultivated, occasionally naturalized. Native of China.
NSW subdivisions: *NWS
AVH map***

Text by M. J. Taylor
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 4 (1993)


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