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terebinth
Pistacia terebinthus
Pistacia terebinthus, known commonly as terebinth and turpentine tree, is a species of Pistacia, native to Iran, and the Mediterranean region from the western regions of Morocco, and Portugal to Greece, western and southeast Turkey. In the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea – Syria, Lebanon – a similar species, Pistacia palaestina, fills the same ecological niche as this species and is also known as terebinth.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.187
Rariorum Plantarum Historia (with Fungorum Historia)
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.33
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.449
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.365
Garden of Health
1507 · p.363
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.187
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.287
Discourses on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Dioscorides; Pietro Andrea Mattioli (comm.) · 1568 · p.307
Stirpium adversaria nova
Matthias de Lobel · 1571 · p.436
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.879
History of Rare Plants
Carolus Clusius · 1601 · p.27
Elements of Botany
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort · 1719 · p.96
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Pistacia terebinthus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 81870.