Mexican Pistache
Pistacia mexicana
Mexican pistache is a graceful, compound-leaved small tree of the Texas-Mexico borderlands with brilliant fall color and fruit for birds, drought-hardy and underused as a shade tree.
- Family
- Anacardiaceae
- Type
- tree
- Lifespan
- perennial
- Height
- 15–30 ft
- Spacing
- 15–25 ft apart
- Light
- sun
- Soil moisture
- dry
- Soil pH
- alkaline
- Bloom
- March, April, May, June, July, August
- Bloom colors
- white
- Wildlife value
- songbirds
- Landscape uses
- specimen, hedge or screen
- Native states
- TX