Pistacia eurycarpa
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What to Eat
Edible parts: Fruit, Fruit - tea, Leaves, Seeds, Nuts
The fruit are eaten fresh or dried for tea. Young shoots are eaten alone or used in soup. The leaves, seeds, and nuts are also edible.
Where to Find It
It is a temperate plant.
Iraq, Middle East, Turkey, Türkiye,
How to Identify
A temperate tree in the Anacardiaceae family. It produces edible fruit and nutritious seeds and nuts.
Wikipedia
Source ↗Pistacia eurycarpa, commonly as Persian turpentine tree, is a species of Pistacia native to southeastern Turkey, northern Iraq, Iran, Armenia, and Antilebanon. It is called qezwan (قەزوان) or dareben (دارەبەن) in Kurdish. It is morphologically close to Pistacia atlantica subsp. mutica, but differs by having distinctly compressed fruits (width larger than length). Having a watery flavour, its resin is used as a chewing gum to relieve upper abdominal discomfort, stomach aches, dyspepsia and peptic ulcer.
Names & Synonyms
Buttum, Cedene, Kazan, Kazwaan, Kizvan, Menengec
References (5)
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