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Leaves alternate, composed, imparipinnate; with 7-11 leaflets 2-6 \u00d7 0.6-1.5 cm, lanceolate, obtuse, not mucronate, with entire margin, slightly coriaceous, glabrous, deep green on the upper side and slightly lighter on the underside. Rachis with narrow wings, sometimes inconspicuous. Inflorescence with male flowers in racemes of cymes (thyrse), terminal, at the end of the branches of the previous year, and with female flowers in wide panicles, erect or ascending. Flowers very small and numerous, unisexual, with sepaloid bracteoles, yellow or reddish. Male flower with 2 linear-lanceolate bracts, puberulent and 1-3 bracteoles and 5 stamens. Female flower with 1 lanceolate bract and 2-4 bracteoles, with pistil ending in 3 stigmas. Fruit a subglobose drupe, up to 8 mm, slightly compressed, first greenish-yellow, then reddish and finally reddish-blue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-13152","species","type-species","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pistacia atlantica Desf. - North Africa Trees<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pistacia atlantica Desf. - North Africa Trees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tree, deciduous, dioecious, up to 10(15) m in height, but usually not exceeding 6 m, resembling Quercus ilex from afar by its globose-hemispherical crown and resembling Fraxinus excelsior at a close range for its foliage. 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