Editing Pistacia lentiscus (section)

====Miscellanea====
Apart from its medicinal properties and cosmetic and culinary uses, mastic gum is also used in the production of high-grade [[varnish]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pistacia {{!}} Description, Distribution, & Examples {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/plant/Pistacia |access-date=2024-03-02 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}</ref>

The mastic tree has been introduced into [[Mexico]] as an [[ornamental plant]], where it is very prized and fully [[Naturalisation (biology)|naturalized]].  The trees are grown mainly in suburban areas in semiarid zones, and remain undamaged, although the summer rainfall is contrary to its original [[Mediterranean climate]].{{citation needed|date=June 2023}}

A related species, ''P. saportae'', has been shown by DNA analysis <ref>{{cite journal | url=https://repository.si.edu/bitstream/handle/10088/6190/Yi_2008phylogenetics_and_reticulat.pdf | doi=10.3732/ajb.95.2.241 | title=Phylogenetics and reticulate evolution in ''Pistacia'' (Anacardiaceae) | year=2008 | last1=Yi | first1=Tingshuang | last2=Wen | first2=Jun | last3=Golan-Goldhirsh | first3=Avi | last4=Parfitt | first4=Dan E. | journal=American Journal of Botany | volume=95 | issue=2 | pages=241–251 | pmid=21632348 |doi-access=free}}</ref> to be a hybrid between maternal ''P. lentiscus'' and paternal ''P. terebinthus'' (terebinth or turpentine). The hybrid has  imparipinnate leaves, with leaflets semipersistent, subsessile terminal, and sometimes reduced. Usually, ''P. terebinthus'' and'' P. lentiscus'' occupy different [[biotope]]s and barely overlap: Mastic appears at lower elevations and near the sea, while the ''P. terebinthus'' most frequently inhabits inland and mountainous areas such as the [[Iberian System]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Pistacia terebinthus L. |url=https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:70274-1#:~:text=The%20native%20range%20of%20this,primarily%20in%20the%20subtropical%20biome. |website=Royal Botanic Gardens Kew |publisher=Plants of the World Online}}</ref>
"Dufte-Zeichen" (Scents-signs), the fourth scene from ''[[Sonntag aus Licht]]'' by [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], is centred around seven scents, each one associated with one day of the week. "Mastix" is assigned to Wednesday and comes third.