Talk:Pistacia terebinthus

message: "It prefers relatively moist areas, up to 600 m in height."
The above does not make sense.  Clearly the tree does not grow to a height of 600 meters.  Did the editor mean that the tree will grow in altitudes up to 600 meters above sea level, or are there more zeros than needed?
By the way, I am a total newbie to this and have not yet figured out how to post to Wikipedia.
LetUsThink (talk) 00:21, 6 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  problem with wording in History section 

message: I propose to merge Pistacia palaestina into Pistacia terebinthus, because both morphological and molecular evidence indicates they are the same species and P. palaestina should be treated as a synonym.--Neux-Neux (talk) 14:17, 12 June 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merger proposal 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this section. 
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:Terebinth →  – Terebinth does not only refer to Pistacia terebinthus.
# In the sense of ancient usage of the term "terebinth", ancient Greeks refer to both P. terebinthus and P. atlantica as terebinth. The anonymous user below thinks the ancient usage of the term is not important, but nearly half of the content of this page is about terebinth in Ancient texts.
# In the sense of the terebinth tree that produces the terebinth resin, P. atlantica is the main source of the terebinth resin in the Mediterranean region, instead of P. terebinthus. Again, half of the section "Uses" is about the terebinth resin.
# In the sense of modern usage of the term "terebinth", the definition of "terebinth" by the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language is "any of several usually small trees of the genus Pistacia of the Middle East and the Mediterranean region", and P. atlantica is called Atlantic terebinth or simply terebinth in various sources.
#The content of this page itself contains descriptions of other species. For example, it mentions the terebinth resin was used at the foot of the Zagros Mountains, but P. terebinthus does not grow in Iran; thus, it must refer to some other species such as P. atlantica. The imprecision of the title "terebinth" is self-evident.
It is best to move this page to Pistacia terebinthus, and turn terebinth into either a disambiguation page including Pistacia terebinthus and Pistacia atlantica in the list, or a separate page introducing the terebinth trees in ancient Greek and Roman texts and the current uses of the terebinth resin. Neux-Neux (talk) 16:39, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 2 March 2022 

message: The characteristics of flowers and fruit appear twice and are inconsistent: 
"The flowers are reddish-purple, appearing with the new leaves in early spring. The fruit consists of small, globular drupes 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long, red to black when ripe. All parts of the plant have a strong resinous smell." 
versus
"The flowers range from purple to green, the fruit is the size of a pea and turns from red to brown, depending on the degree of maturation." 
This ought to be tidied up.
I am just a user looking for information. Unfortunately, I am neither a biologist and have no knowledge of mediterrenean botany, so I am of no help here. Hskoppek (talk) 10:49, 31 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Duplication/contradiction 

message: Hello  Why is that necessary? The genus is in the taxobox. Invasive Spices (talk) 21:36, 3 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Genus