True pistachio tree

The true pistachio tree ( Pistacia will vera L.), is a shrub from 3 to 8 meters, pushing in the Garrigues and especially in the maquis of the Mediterranean climates.

This shrub originating in the Middle East - Syria - product the Pistache S which one eats out of aperitif or which one uses in pastry making or as perfume of ices. This last was imported of Syria by a Roman governor, Lucius Vitellius and was acclimity with the areas of the west of the the Mediterranean.

Pistachio tree comes from the Greek pistakê .

Description

  • the null and void sheets, a little coriaces, have three to five oval leaflets.

  • flowering is made April at June.
  • the fruit - 20 to 25 mm - elliptic contains an edible almond, the Pistache.

Diseases and parasites

Galle of the pistachio tree-terebinth leads the sheet to undergo a change to contain eggs of his parasite.

Sensitive to the red spider.

Cryptogamic affections in the event of strong moisture.

Culture

To lead in stem or half standard on ground weeded with regular watering - not to let the ground dry.

The size is made in January, it is never severe.

The propagation by cutting of the pistachio tree is impossible.

Fruit

The fresh pistachio is a delicately scented almond.

Production

the principal producer countries are Iran and California comes then Turkey and Syria, then Greece and finally Italy.

Pistacia will vera is dioïque, the synchronization of the flowering of the males and females is essential with the production.

The sex of the plants

The pistachio tree was used to show the existence of a sexuality at the plants, which the Clergé of the time had of the evil to accept.

In 1702, Joseph Pitton de Tournefort brought back some pistachios of China and planted them with the national Muséum of natural history. A male pistachio tree pushed (it is always alive, the top of its 300 years, blotti in a corner of the Alpine Garden, proof of its cold resistance)

In 1718, Sebastien Vaillant noticed that this esseulé pistachio tree flowered every year, but which it never produced of fruits; just like another pistachio tree with the different flowers located in Paris but to be pollinated too far. Valiant had the idea to bring a branch of the male in flower of the MNHN and to shake it beside the other pistachio tree (female)… And there, miracle, of the fruits appeared…

See too

Other pistachio trees:

External bonds

  • the pistachio tree painted by Cézanne always exists!
  • Clerc's Office on wild pistachio trees.

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