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 ...

Greece is famous for the production of mastiha, or mastic, a tree resin collected from mastic trees that flourish in the distinct climate of Chios. Just 1 kilogram can retail for about $350. Today, it ...

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 ...

The domesticated versions of wild Mediterranean shrubs are the world’s sole source of gum mastic — a clear resin that has ...

In response to Greece's financial crisis, villagers on the eastern island of Chios carried on with what their ancestors had been profitably doing for centuries: patiently carving lines on mastic ...