Pistacia lentiscusL.

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WFO wfo-0000394118 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Pistacia lentiscus, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. a Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-05-25 / obs. 200673857
Pistacia lentiscus, photographed by Felix Puff
fig. b Felix Puff, CC0 1.0 / obs. 201881376
Pistacia lentiscus, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. c Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195546657
Pistacia lentiscus, photographed by Mehdi Chetibi
fig. d Mehdi Chetibi, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203054492
Pistacia lentiscus, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195437512
Pistacia lentiscus, photographed by Christian Berg
fig. f Christian Berg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198316797
Pistacia lentiscus, photographed by Quentin Groom
fig. g Quentin Groom, CC0 1.0 / obs. 198342326
Pistacia lentiscus, photographed by Denys Vynokurov
fig. h Denys Vynokurov, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 203261371

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Flowering n = 537 observations

Peak flowering in Apr, from 537 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 8 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Lentiscus massiliensis Fourr.
  • Lentiscus vulgaris Fourr.
  • Pistacia brevifolia Gand.
  • Pistacia gummifera Salisb.
  • Pistacia massiliensis Mill.
  • Pistacia multiflora Gand.
  • Pistacia subfalcata Gand.
  • Terebinthus lentiscus (L.) Moench

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.