Pistacia atlantica

Pistacia atlantica is a species of pistachio tree known by the English common name Mt. Atlas mastic tree and as the Persian turpentine tree. In Iran it is called baneh. In the Canary Islands it is known as Almacigo, and in Arabic, it is called بطم (buṭm or buṭum). In southern Iran, in Bandar-Abbas in Hormozgān Province it is called kasoudang and in Bushehr it is called kolkhong. In Turkey it is commonly known as melengiç. In Kurdish the tree is called darwan or daraban, and the seed is called qezwan (.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .script-arabic,.mw-parser-output .script-Arab{font-family:Scheherazade,Lateef,LateefGR,Amiri,'Noto Naskh Arabic','Droid Arabic Naskh',Harmattan,'Arabic Typesetting','Traditional Arabic','Simplified Arabic','Times New Roman',Arial,'Sakkal Majalla','Microsoft Uighur',Calibri,'Microsoft Sans Serif','Segoe UI',serif,sans-serif;font-weight:normal}قەزوان‎). Pistacia atlantica, a tree of the genus Pistacia, is of the same genus as pistachio, terebinth, and mastic. Pistacia ranges from shrubs to trees adapted to drought and the Mediterranean climate. It is stronger than Pistacia terebinthus, where it is used as rootstock in Ukraine and the United States for growing Pistacia vera, but resists frost better than P. terebinthus.