Botanical Name: Pistacia chinensis
Common Name: Chinese pistache
Type of Plant: dicot: tree
Character deciduous
 
Habit of Growth:
Overall Shape an erect, single-trunked tree, with a large open canopy in youth which becomes more dense and rounded with age
Height 30-50'(60')
Spread 2/3-3/4
Growth Rate moderate
 
Environment:
Exposure outdoors full sun; grows poorly in shade
Soil tolerates most, prefers well-draining
Hardiness some frost (zones 8-16, 18-23); thrives in warm low-elev.
 
Morphology:
Leaves even pinnately compound, alternate (or whorled) towards the ends of branches; having mostly 10-16 leaflets; 2-4" long, lanceolate
Flowers plants are dioecious; produce inconspicuous male and female flowers; in axillary or terminal 4-6" panicles; late spring-summer
Fruit a drupe: oval-obovoid, bright red to purple-blue, 1/4" long
 
Propagation:
seed
 
Usage:
a medium to large shade tree or accent tree for its fall color and form; lawn tree, street tree
 
Landscape Care:
Watering no special requirements - adapts to heavy watering if drainage is excellent, can tolerate drought
Fertilizing balanced, in spring; little needed in drier locations
Pruning head high when young, prune to shape, thin out occasionally
Pests/Diseases verticillium wilt in heavy, wet, poorly drained soils
Special Conditions/Other
 
Origin: China
Family: Anacardiaceae

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