Pistacia terebinthus Tree Uses 🌳🐿

🌳🐒 Pistacia terebinthus trees have edible nuts and are used to make many products including turpentine, soap, chewing gum, coffee, bread, pickles and lots more!

[egonispanovity]

Maga egy nagyon különleges ember, ha ennyire szereti a növényeket.Minden csodálatom az öné.Én is nagy növényimádó vagyok.A mediterrán növényfajokat szeretem a legjobban.Tavaly ősszel egy szamócafát hoztam haza (Arbutus unedo) Montenegró tengermellékéről ide Szerbiába, ahol élek.Csodálatos fa, naponta fél kiló gyümölcsöt ettem meg októberben, amikor érleli a bogyóit, és egyúttal virágzik is.A bogyóiból idehaza lekvárt főztem.A fája is nagyon értékes, kemény, de jól faragható.Most éppen egy medált faragok a szamócafa fájából.Pistacia terebintust is sokat láttam Montenegróban és P.lentiscust .Most olvastam róla, hogy különleges illatos nedvet választ ki a kérgéből, ha megvágják.Tavasszal tervezek leutazni Montenegróba, gyüjteni fogok pistacia faanyagot, mert nagyon érdekel, milyen titkokat rejteget magában ez a növény...Küldöm a szívélyes üdvözleteimet Szerbiából (én különben magyar vagyok).

[ChristosCMelbAustral]

When you say turpentine do you mean mineral turpentine that painters use to thin paint?
My late grandmother used to make chewing gum from the sap of the trunk of the pistacia terebinthus (in Cyprus). It was a very good chewing gum. You chew it for half an hour and it cleans your teeth better than your dentist would. However, you need to have very strong teeth. If a tooth is a little loose you will lose it. The gum is very strong. It's actually hard when you start chewing it but it gets softer as you chew it. You can also buy it from the shops in Cyprus.
The nuts are edible when fully ripe. You can also mix them with dough to make tremithopitta. This is 5mm-10mm thick, flat pitta which is very nice. You need to have strong teeth to break the nuts. Again, don't bother if you have weak or loose teeth. The pitta itself is a little hard too. People in Cypus love them. If they are lazy to make them they just buy them from their local bakery. When I was holidaying in Cyprus in 2009/2010 I used to buy the olive bread (eliopitta). That was delicious but not as good as the one mum makes here in Australia, Mum uses Volos olives. These are the mammoth olives which she buys from the delicatessen. Actually, I buy the olives because I insist that she uses them as I find them the best tasting olives (they cost $19.00 a kilogram but they are worth it. These olives are imported from Greece).
There is also the pistacia lentiscus tree. This is found in Cyprus too. Its nuts are about the same size as the pistacia terebinthus. People mix its nuts with the minced meat they put in their sausages. The nuts have many other uses too.
The pistacia lentiscus has two leaves at the end of its branches, the pistacia terebinthus has one leaf at the end of its branches.

[piotrwojdelko]

I'm Pole experimenting with many strange fruits and veg, recently I have bought it and don't know what to do with it .Can i put into the coffe machine or it will be too risky to destroy blades

[PatrickDustman]

Cool video, love that.

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