Pistacia terebinthus Turpentine Tree
Family
Anacardiaceae
Genus
Pistacia
Species
terebinthus
Pistacia terebinthus, known commonly as terebinth and turpentine tree, is a
species of Pistacia, native to the Canary Islands, and the Mediterranean region from the
western regions of Morocco, and Portugal to Greece, western and southeast Turkey. In the
eastern shores of the Mediterranean sea – Syria, Lebanon and Israel – a similar species,
Pistacia palaestina, fills the same ecological niche as this species and is also known
as terebinth.