Mastic
Pistacia lentiscus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 5.0 m
- wide
- 3.0 m
Anacardiaceae
Also called Lentisk, Mastic Tree, Mastic tree
Formerly Lentiscus massiliensis, Lentiscus vulgaris, Pistacia brevifolia, Pistacia massiliensis, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Canary Is., Medit.Kew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 5.0 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1–5 m; Plants for a Future 5–5 m
- Spread
- 3.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -12.2 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: water, flowers, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Portuguese
- Lentisqueira, Lentisco-verdadeiro, Aroeira
- Catalan
- Llentiscle, Mata, Mata de Llentiscle
- Hebrew
- אלת המסטיק
- Italian
- Lentisco
- German
- Mastixstrauch
- French
- Lentisque, Pistachier lentisque, Arbre au mastic
- Spanish
- Lentisco, entina, lentisco
- Russian
- Фисташка мастичная
- Czech
- řečík lentišek
- Croatian
- Tršlja
- Japanese
- マスティクス
- Greek
- Μαστιχόδενδρο, Πιστακία η λεντίσκος, Σχινιά
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Pistacia lentiscus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.