`Pearl Street` pistache

Abstract

A novel male Chinese pistache tree is described, characterized by rapid growth and large trunk caliper in budded nursery stock, upright growing branches that average 52 degree branch attachments, trunk and scaffold branches with strong apical dominance, and a tall, dense, globe-shaped crown.

We claim: 
     
       1. A new and distinct variety of Chinese Pistache tree, substantially as herein shown and described, characterized particularly as to novelty by a high percentage of upright scaffold branches growing nearly vertical on 4-year-old trees, with solid attachments and a narrower branch angle than that of the Seedling Pistache and the `Keith Davey` variety; superior apical dominance resulting in heavy caliper of trunk and rapid growth of young budded nursery stock 2 years old.