Pistachio nuts, also known as pistachio (scientific name: pistachio? It is a plant of Pistacia. Small trees, 5-7 meters high. Odd pinnate compound leaves alternate, with 3-5 leaflets, flat petiole, wingless or narrow wings. Panicle is 4- 10 cm long, inflorescence axis and branches are puberulent; Ovary ovoid, about 65438 0 mm long, style about 0.5 mm long.
The fruit is large, rectangular, about 2 cm long, 65438 0 cm wide, sharp and slender, and yellow-green to pink at maturity. Originally from Iran, it is distributed in Turkey, Italy, France, Greece, Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries. It is also cultivated in the southwestern United States and California, and also widely cultivated in Russian, China and Xinjiang.
Trees that like temperature and light have strong resistance to heat and cold, wind and sand, barren and saline-alkali, and are not very strict with soil. Suitable for planting in areas with annual average temperature ≥ 1 1℃, extreme low temperature ≥-26℃ and annual effective accumulated temperature above 4000℃.
Pistacia vera is one of the four largest dried fruits in the world, and it is also a precious woody oil, dried fruit, medicinal and other economic trees unique to Kashgar, Xinjiang, China.