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TEREBINTH , botanical name Pislacia Terebinthus, a member of the natural See also:order Anacardiaceae, usually a small See also:tree See also:common in the See also:south of See also:Europe and the whole Mediterranean See also:area . It has a purplish See also:grey bark and See also:compound leaves with two to four pairs, and an See also:odd terminal one, of smooth dark See also:green See also:oval See also:blunt leaflets, which when See also:young are thin, translucent and strongly tinged with reddish See also:purple . The very small numerous unisexual See also:flowers are See also:borne on panicles which See also:spring from just above the scars of last See also:year's leaves . The See also:fruit is a small roundish See also:bright red drupe with a scanty pulp . The plant has been See also:long known in See also:English gardens . A liquid oleo-resinous exudation, known as Chian, Scio or See also:Cyprus See also:turpentine, is obtained by cutting the See also:stem . The Chian turpentine of See also:commerce is obtained exclusively from the See also:island of Scio; the produce is very small, a large tree yielding only ro or 11 ounces in one year . An allied See also:species, P . Lentiscus, is the mastich tree . |
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