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The apetalous flowers are unisexual and borne in panicleA panicle is a compound raceme — a branched, indeterminate inflorescence with pedicellate flowers attached along the secondary branches (in another words, a branched cluster of flowers in which the branches are racemes . This type of inflorescence is founs and the plants are dioecious. One male can pollinate about 12 nut-bearing females. Trees planted in orchardAn orchard is an intentional planting of trees maintained for food production. Most orchards comprise either fruit or nut-producing trees (see fruit trees. Most temperate-zone orchards are laid out in a regular grid, with a mown grass or bare dirt base ths are usually pruned to size to make the harvest easier.

The fruitIn botany, a fruit is the ripened ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. In cuisine, when discussing fruit as food, the term usually refers to just those plant fruits that are sweet and fleshy, examples of which would be plum, apple, and or is a drupeThe peach is a typical drupe (stone fruit In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a s, containing an elongated seedThis writeup is about biological seeds; for the Buddhist metaphor, see bija. A seed is the ripened ovule of gymnosperm or angiosperm plants. The importance of the seed relative to more primitive forms of reproduction and dispersal is attested to by the su with a striking light green kernel, having a very characteristic flavor. The kernels are used in ice creamIn its simplest form, ice cream (originally iced cream is a frozen dessert made from dairy products ( milk, cream or custard) combined with flavourings and sweeteners. This mixture is super-cooled by stirring while reducing its temperature to prevent larg, confections such as baklava, and are also eaten whole, roasted and salted. When the fruit ripens, the shells split open partially (see photo). This happens with an audible pop, and legend has it that lovers who stand under a pistachio tree at night and hear the nuts popping open will have good luck.

The shell of the pistachio is naturally a beige colour, but it is sometimes dyed red in commercial pistachios. Originally the red dye was applied by importers to hide stains on the shells caused when the nuts were picked by hand. However most pistachios are now picked by machine and the shells remain unstained, making dyeing unnecessary (except that many consumers expect red pistachios).

Related to the true pistachio tree is Pistacia lentiscus, a shrub or small tree of the Mediterranean region with evergreen pinnately compound leaves. From it is obtained a resin, mastic, which is often chewed by the natives of Turkey. Mastic is used in varnishes and in medicine as a mild stimulant. Another species is Pistacia terebinthus, a native of the eastern Mediterranean countries, which yields China turpentine.

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