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'''''Pistacia chinensis''''' ([[English language|English]]: Chinese Pistache) is a small to medium-sized [[tree]] native to central and western [[China]]. It is [[hardy]], can withstand harsh conditions and poor quality [[soil]]s, and grows from 9-15 m, exceptionally up to 25 m.<ref name=eFloras>{{cite journal| author= | title=Pistacia chinensis Bunge, Enum. Pl. China Bor. 15. 1833. | volume= FOC Vol. 11 | page=335, 345 | url=http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200012703 | work=eFloras | date=2009 | accessdate=2009-11-11}}</ref> The [[leaf|leaves]] are [[deciduous]], pinnate, 20-25 cm long, with 10 or 12 leaflets, the terminal leaflet usually absent. The [[flower]]s are produced in [[panicle]]s 15-20 cm long at the ends of the branches; it is [[plant sexuality|dioecious]], with separate male and female plants. The [[fruit]] is a small red [[drupe]], turning blue when ripe, containing a single [[seed]]. This species is planted as a street tree in temperate areas worldwide due to its attractive fruit and autumn foliage. | |||
Deciduous trees, about 20 m tall; bark dark brown. Petioles minutely pubescent, flattened above; leaf blade imparipinnately compound with 1-13 opposite leaflets; leaf rachis striate, minutely pubescent; petiolule 1-2 mm; leaflet blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, or rarely linear-lanceolate, 5-10 × 1.5-2.5 cm, papery, base oblique, margin entire, apex acuminate or long acuminate, on both sides minutely pubescent along midrib and lateral veins and with prominent venation. Flowers produced before leafing; male inflorescence 6-7 cm, with clustered branches, female inflorescence lax, 15-20 cm, rachis minutely pubescent; floral subtending bracts lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm, minutely pubescent. Pedicels ca. 1 mm, minutely pubescent. Male flowers with 2 lanceolate bracteoles and 2 linear-lanceolate tepals, ca. 1.5 mm; stamens 3-5, filaments less than 0.5 mm, anthers oblong, ca. 2 mm; pistillode absent. Female flowers with 2-4 linear-lanceolate bracteoles and 5 ovate or oblong tepals, 0.7-1.5 × 0.5-0.7 mm; ovary globose, ca. 0.5 mm in diam., glabrous, stigmas thick, red. Drupe obovate-globose, slightly compressed, ca. 5 mm in diam., longitudinally striate in dried condition. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Aug-Nov.<ref name=eFloras/> | |||
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Pistacia chinensis, Bunge. Chinese Pistachio. Tree: lvs. deciduous, odd-pinnate; lfts. 5-6 pairs, short-petiolate, lanceolate: infl. compositely branched panicles: fr. an obovoid-rotundate drupe, compressed and about 1/4 in.long and broad, scarlet turning purplish. China.—Used as stock for P. vera and also said to be a good shade tree in Fla. and useful for ornamental planting, being rapid-growing and the foliage coloring finely in the late fall. | |||
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Pistacia chinensis (English: Chinese Pistache) is a small to medium-sized tree native to central and western China. It is hardy, can withstand harsh conditions and poor quality soils, and grows from 9-15 m, exceptionally up to 25 m.[1] The leaves are deciduous, pinnate, 20-25 cm long, with 10 or 12 leaflets, the terminal leaflet usually absent. The flowers are produced in panicles 15-20 cm long at the ends of the branches; it is dioecious, with separate male and female plants. The fruit is a small red drupe, turning blue when ripe, containing a single seed. This species is planted as a street tree in temperate areas worldwide due to its attractive fruit and autumn foliage.
Deciduous trees, about 20 m tall; bark dark brown. Petioles minutely pubescent, flattened above; leaf blade imparipinnately compound with 1-13 opposite leaflets; leaf rachis striate, minutely pubescent; petiolule 1-2 mm; leaflet blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, or rarely linear-lanceolate, 5-10 × 1.5-2.5 cm, papery, base oblique, margin entire, apex acuminate or long acuminate, on both sides minutely pubescent along midrib and lateral veins and with prominent venation. Flowers produced before leafing; male inflorescence 6-7 cm, with clustered branches, female inflorescence lax, 15-20 cm, rachis minutely pubescent; floral subtending bracts lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm, minutely pubescent. Pedicels ca. 1 mm, minutely pubescent. Male flowers with 2 lanceolate bracteoles and 2 linear-lanceolate tepals, ca. 1.5 mm; stamens 3-5, filaments less than 0.5 mm, anthers oblong, ca. 2 mm; pistillode absent. Female flowers with 2-4 linear-lanceolate bracteoles and 5 ovate or oblong tepals, 0.7-1.5 × 0.5-0.7 mm; ovary globose, ca. 0.5 mm in diam., glabrous, stigmas thick, red. Drupe obovate-globose, slightly compressed, ca. 5 mm in diam., longitudinally striate in dried condition. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Aug-Nov.[1]
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Pistacia chinensis, Bunge. Chinese Pistachio. Tree: lvs. deciduous, odd-pinnate; lfts. 5-6 pairs, short-petiolate, lanceolate: infl. compositely branched panicles: fr. an obovoid-rotundate drupe, compressed and about 1/4 in.long and broad, scarlet turning purplish. China.—Used as stock for P. vera and also said to be a good shade tree in Fla. and useful for ornamental planting, being rapid-growing and the foliage coloring finely in the late fall. CH
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- ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 "Pistacia chinensis Bunge, Enum. Pl. China Bor. 15. 1833.". eFloras FOC Vol. 11: 335, 345. 2009. http://efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200012703. Retrieved 2009-11-11.