Fruits, Vegetables, Nuts, Grains, Berries - Pistachio

Pistachio Color 742 - #93C572

The pistachio, Pistacia vera in the Anacardiaceae family, is a small tree originally from Iran and Iraq which now can also be found in regions of Syria, Lebanon, Turkey, Greece, Tunisia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, India, Pakistan, Egypt, Italy (Sicily), Uzbekistan, Afghanistan (especially in the provinces of Samangan and Badghis), and the United States, specifically in California. The tree produces a seed.

Archeologists have found evidence from excavations at Jarmo in northeastern Iraq[1] that pistachio seeds were a common food as early as 6750 BC.

More recently, the pistachio has been cultivated commercially in the English-speaking world, in Australia, and in New Mexico and California, of the United States, where it was introduced in 1854 as a garden tree.