If you are interested in volunteering, or would like a tree planted in front of your home, please call our BTNA hotline at 277-6630 . Trees are selected from the approved list of the City Arborist. A small to medium-sized deciduous tree native to midwestern China. It is generally found in moist, loamy soils in semi-tropical to termperate regions. In its native environment, it receives 20 to 60 inches of rainfall per year.
Female trees produce showy clusters of small red berries that later turn dark blue.
This tree will grow to 40-50 feet with a trunk diameter of 14 inches. It is average-lived, moderate growing and tolerant to drought, oak root fungus, poor soils, heat, wind and alkaline soils. Chinese Pistaches are half-hardy to frost. They received little or no damage from the 1990 freeze in San Jose. There is a moderate potential for sidewalk damage by roots.