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a single maple leaf fell on a fir tree branch and the contrast is so beautiful.
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Pistacia atlantica is a relic tree in the Negev Desert Highlands. These large trees are very impressive in the arid landscapes.
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It was great to see this maple flowers for the first time. This is one of the commonest trees in Europe.
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This is an ancient tree, datoing a few hunderds of years. It is a relic of, an almost extinct, arid park forest that occurs in eastern Israel.
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One of the commonest European trees. I did not see the fly until I saw the picture.
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This is a gal developed on Pistacia atlantica, it is typical for this species and look like a coral.
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Indian horse chestnut (Aesculus indica) is a majestic tree, we found large stands of it above Manali, some specimen are really sculpturous. Beyond its role in mixed spruce forests, the leaves are used as fodder and the grounded seeds as part of flower.
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Pistacia chinensis is the eastern most pistachio species in the world.
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This tree is quite common all over Japan, its yellow-brown autumn foliage is a great contrast to all the other colours.
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Pistacia khinjuk is a tree of the colder deserts of SW Asia. In Jordan it is locally common in the Edom Mts (including Petra, where this pic was taken). Here you ca nsee it emerging from a sandstone cliff.
The next population of this tree occurs in Southern Sinai (Egypt).
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Biebersteinia multifida is a strange plant, it has a tuber, shy yellow flowers and roundishg fruits, which you can see here. The leaves are hairy and much dissected. Biebersteinia use to belong to the geranium plant family (Geraniaceae), today it has its own damily Biebersteiniaceae.
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Pistacia lentiscus is a large evergreen Mediterranean shrub. Here u can see its fruits, in winter some fruit will remain red for advertisement and the rest will blacken and will be eaten and dispersed by birds.
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and here is the whole plant in its rocky habitat.
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Pistacia lentiscus is a large evergreen Mediterranean shrub. Here u can see its fruits, in winter some fruit will remain red for advertisement and the rest will blacken and will be eaten and dispersed by birds.
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This is a common small tree of the Mediterranean region.
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This is a wild pistachio from which the pistachios we all enjoy are cultivated from. These red pistachios are edbile even fresh.
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Here u can see Rhus coriaria beautiful autumn foliage.
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Rhus integrifolia is a common evergreen shrub in California, typical for chaparral vegetation.