Pick, plant right tree for your Arizona home for shade, fruit, value, energy cost savings. ... Eisenhower recommends such small trees as desert orchid, mastic or Texas olive.

The first of our suggested desert trees: Mastic Tree 15’ tall | 20’ wide. So you’re curious about desert trees.Let’s start with this small to medium sized evergreen tree, the Mastic tree.

Pistacia lentiscus is a Mediterranean native that grows into a large shrub or small tree to 25 feet. Mastic trees can become invasive in irrigated areas. Birds typically spread the seeds.

But much of the island’s trademark mastic gum industry went up in scented smoke over the past week when a wildfire ravaged the world’s only mastic tree plantations during the heart of the ...

The tree’s other nickname, monk’s pepper, comes from the legend that chewing the leaves helped medieval monastics maintain their vows of celibacy. They can grow wide but are easily managed.

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 ...

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 ...

Opened in 2005, Mastic Spa is the first U.S. outpost of this Greek-based cosmetics and skincare brand. Founded by two pharmacist brothers, Michael and George Sodis, Mastic infuses its products ...

Place the half-and-half, bread and mastic in a large nonreactive pot over medium-low heat and allow it to come gently to a boil, about 1 hour, stirring occasionally.2.