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  • The mountain is dominated by a woodland of wild olive Olea europea and fairly dense maquis of lentisc Pistacia lentiscus with Phillyrea angustifolia and Smilax aspera, also by open maquis with Euphorbia dendroides co-dominant on south-eastern slopes, and Juniperus phoenicea on northern slopes.

    Ichkeul National Park, Tunisia 2008

  • The lentisc has probably been thus mistaken for the turpentine tree.

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

  • It is therein stated that the inhabitants of this country extract from the fruit of the lentisc

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881 Various

  • There's a green twist of galbanum that is perfectly sharp - astringent but not too bitter - overlaying a woody, herbaceous middle (lentisque, or lentisc, which smells woody/resiny to me); the lavender is very subtle and I wouldn't have guessed it.

    Perfume Posse 2010

  • There's a green twist of galbanum that is perfectly sharp - astringent but not too bitter - overlaying a woody, herbaceous middle (lentisque, or lentisc, which smells woody/resiny to me); the lavender is very subtle and I wouldn't have guessed it.

    Perfume Posse 2010

  • Not forgetting the best tooth-pickers in the world, made of the wood; but above all, the gum for fastning loose-teeth in the gums; the mastick, gather’d from this profitable bush in the Island of Scio; beside other uses: And as the lentisc, so may the

    Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees John Evelyn 1663

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