? Pistachio
Pistachio with ripening fruit
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae Division: Magnoliophyta Class: Magnoliopsida Order: Sapindales Family: Anacardiaceae Genus: Pistacia Species: P. vera
Binomial name
Pistacia vera L.

The Pistachio (Pistacia vera, Anacardiaceae; sometimes placed in Pistaciaceae) is a small tree up to 10 m tall, native to southwestern Asia (Iran west to the Levant). It has deciduous pinnate leaves 10-20 cm long. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1200x882, 169 KB) Photo of Pistacia vera Kerman (Pistachio) at the Desert Demonstration Garden in Las Vegas, taken May 2003 by User:Stan Shebs File links The following pages link to this file: Pistachio User:Stan Shebs/Gallery/Plants M-Z... Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ... Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta - liverworts Anthocerotophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern... Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also called angiosperms) are a major group of land plants. ... Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed typically contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ... Families See text The Sapindales is an order of flowering plants included among the rosid subgroup of dicotyledons. ... Genera See text Anacardiaceae is a family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes. ... Species Pistacia afghanistania Pistacia atlantica - Betoum Pistacia chinensis - Chinese Pistache Pistacia khinjuk Pistacia lentiscus - Mastic or Lentisco Pistacia mexicana - Mexican Pistache Pistacia terebinthus - Terebinth Pistacia texana - Texas Pistache Pistacia vera - Pistachio Pistacia wienmannifolia Pistacia is a genus of ten species in the family Anacardiaceae, native to the Canary Islands, northwest... In biology, binomial nomenclature is the formal method of naming species. ... Carolus Linnaeus Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as â–¶ (help· info), and in English usually under the Latinized name Carolus Linnaeus (May 23, 1707 – January 10, 1778), the name with which his publications were signed, was a Swedish botanist and physician who laid the foundations for the modern scheme... Genera See text Anacardiaceae is a family of flowering plants bearing fruits that are drupes. ... The coniferous Sequoia, the tallest tree species on earth A tree can be defined as a large, perennial, woody plant. ... See also: Asian and Eurasian World map showing Asia. ... The Levant Levant is an imprecise geographical term historically referring to a large area in the Middle East south of the Taurus Mountains, bounded by the Mediterranean Sea on the west, and by the northern Arabian Desert and Upper Mesopotamia to the east. ... Deciduous means temporary or tending to fall off (deriving from the Latin word decidere, to fall off). ... A pinnate fern frond (Blechnum appendiculatum). ... In botany, a leaf is an above-ground plant organ specialized for photosynthesis. ...

The plants are dioecious, with separate male and female trees. The flowers are apetalous and unisexual, and borne in panicles. The fruit is a drupe, containing an elongated seed (a nut in the culinary sense, but not a true botanical nut) with a hard, whitish shell and a striking light green kernel, having a very characteristic flavour. Plant sexuality deals with the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant kingdom. ... Clivia miniata bears bright orange flowers. ... For the petals of chakras, see Petal (chakra). ... White-fruited Rowan (Sorbus glabrescens) corymb; note the branched structures holding the fruits. ... Fruit stall in Barcelona, Catalonia. ... The peach is a typical drupe (stone fruit) In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. ... SEED is a block cipher developed by the Korean Information Security Agency. ... Hazelnuts from the Common Hazel Chestnuts // Botanical definition A nut is a testicle between ones legs Order Fagales Family Juglandaceae (or are they? See the discussion) Walnut, Butternut (Juglans) Hickory, Pecan (Carya) Wingnut (Pterocarya) Family Fagaceae Chestnut (Castanea) Beech (Fagus) Oak (Quercus) Stone-oak, Tanoak (Lithocarpus) Family Betulaceae Alder... Hazelnuts from the Common Hazel Chestnuts // Botanical definition A nut is a testicle between ones legs Order Fagales Family Juglandaceae (or are they? See the discussion) Walnut, Butternut (Juglans) Hickory, Pecan (Carya) Wingnut (Pterocarya) Family Fagaceae Chestnut (Castanea) Beech (Fagus) Oak (Quercus) Stone-oak, Tanoak (Lithocarpus) Family Betulaceae Alder...

When the fruit ripens, the shells split open partially (see photo). This happens with an audible pop, and legend has it that lovers who stand under a pistachio tree at night and hear the nuts popping open will have good luck.

Cultivation and uses

Pistachio nuts in the shell and out of it

Pistachio nuts have been a part of the human diet at least since the late paleolithic. The kernels are eaten whole, either fresh or roasted and salted, and are also used in ice cream and confections such as baklava. Pistachios (in the shell and out of it). ... Pistachios (in the shell and out of it). ... The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (Greek παλαιός paleos=old and λίθος lithos=stone or the Old Stone Age) was the first period in the development of human technology of the Stone Age. ... Flash point Non-flammable R/S statement R: none S: none RTECS number VZ4725000 Supplementary data page Structure and properties n, εr, etc. ... Missing image Ice cream is often served on a stick Boxes of ice cream are often found in stores in a display freezer. ... -1...

One of the best places where it grows in abundance has historically been central parts of Iran. From there, it has been introduced in cultivation to the rest of the Mediterranean region by Roman times or earlier, and more recently to California and Australia. The word pistachio itself is perhaps a Middle Persian loanword into English and may be a cognate to the Modern Persian word پسته Pesteh. The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ... The Roman Forum was the central area around which ancient Rome developed. ... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 3rd 410,000 km² 402. ... Pahlavi is a term that refers: (1) to a script used in Iran derived from the Aramaic script, and (2) more broadly, to Middle Persian, the Middle Iranian language written in this script. ...

The shell of the pistachio is naturally a beige colour, but it is sometimes dyed red in commercial pistachios. Originally the red dye was applied by importers to hide stains on the shells caused when the nuts were picked by hand. However most pistachios are now picked by machine and the shells remain unstained, making dyeing unnecessary (except that some consumers have been led to expect red pistachios). Yarn drying after being dyed in the early American tradition, at Conner Prairie living history museum. ...

The trees are planted in orchards, and are usually pruned to size to make the harvest easier. One male tree produces enough pollen for eight to twelve nut-bearing females. Pistachio orchards can be damaged by the fungal disease Botryosphaeria panicle and shoot blight, which kills the flowers and young shoots. An orchard is an intentional planting of trees or shrubs maintained for food production. ... Divisions Chytridiomycota Deuteromycota Zygomycota Glomeromycota Ascomycota Basidiomycota Fungus growing on a tree in Borneo A fungus (plural fungi) is a eukaryotic organism that digests its food externally and absorbs the nutrient molecules into its cells. ... A disease is any abnormal condition of the body or mind that causes discomfort, dysfunction, or distress to the person affected or those in contact with the person. ...