The first of our suggested desert trees: Mastic Tree 15’ tall ... This beauty can almost be called a bush tree. Its fragrant purple flower clusters fill your yard with the sweet smell of spring.

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There’s fresh interest in a fabled shrub on the Aegean island of Chios. A mastic tree at night the island of Chios in Greece. Islanders use the tree’s resin as a cure-all, and pharmaceutical ...

Pyrgi is one of 24 mastic-producing villages, or mastichochoria, on the Greek island of Chios.Although the mastic tree (Pistacia lentiscus) is ubiquitous throughout the Mediterranean, the variety ...