The mastic growers of southern Chios go out to the trees in the early morning before the sun rises. In those mornings, the ...

Once sprouts are about 6 inches high, start to harvest leaves (with a scissors). ... Mastic tree is just as drought-tolerant, though not quite as frost-tolerant, as Chinese pistache. By the way, ...

In the southern village of Pirgi, set among rolling hills once covered by tens of thousands of mastic trees that provided a quarter of the island’s gum output, farmers say up to 45 percent of ...

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 ...

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 ...