Red Push Pistache Tree
Description
About the Red Push Pistache Tree
Enhance your landscape with the captivating Red Push Pistache tree! A remarkable hybrid (Pistacia x ‘Red Push’) known for its outstanding red fall color that lingers longer, this deciduous beauty boasts large, dark green foliage and a generous canopy that provides ample shade in summer and allows the warmth of the sun to shine through during winter.
Standing as a medium-sized tree, it sets a breathtaking spectacle in autumn, transitioning its leaves from green to stunning hues of red, orange, and yellow. Perfect as street trees or around homes, mature Red Push Pistache trees offer cooling shade in the scorching summer months, effectively reducing indoor temperatures and adding value to your property.
How to Grow the Red Push Pistache Tree
Hailing from the Southwest and beloved throughout California, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas, these trees thrive in full sun exposure, displaying their resilience to heat and cold. When planted in rows, they create a natural and stylish privacy screen, blocking unwanted views with grace.
This low-maintenance tree is drought-tolerant once established and can withstand cold temperatures. With minimal to moderate watering needs and the option to be pruned into shape, the Red Push Pistache is an ideal addition to your landscape, bringing beauty and functionality together seamlessly.
Grow a magnificent Red Push Pistache tree that will add beauty, shade, and color to your landscape, making it an all-around valuable addition to your property!
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Characteristics
Hardiness Zone Range | 7 - 10 |
Shade/Sun | Full Sun |
Soil Composition | Loamy |
Soil Moisture | Well Drained |
Soil pH Level | 5.5 - 7.5 |
Size & Spacing
Mature Size
Recommended Spacing
Zone Compatibility
Tools & Supplies
Planting & Care
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Shipping Information
Arrives when it's time to plant
Questions & Answers
The Red Push Pistache (Pistacia × 'Red Push') is a hybrid pistache tree, and one of its appealing qualities is that it typically does not produce seeds or berries. This characteristic makes it a popular ornamental tree since it doesn’t create the mess that fruiting pistache trees can.
The Red Push Pistache is prized for its vibrant red fall foliage and is generally a sterile variety, meaning it won’t produce the small, inedible fruit (similar to berries) that female pistache trees might. This is beneficial if you're looking for a low-maintenance landscape tree without the concern of dropped seeds or berries.
That will depend upon which option you choose. Please see the "Choose an option" dropdown menu near the top of the page, which will show you the various sizes/options that are available.
We appreciate you reaching out to us. Because weather and soil conditions vary so much from year to year and even within your zone, it's best to think of your planting time as a range of favorable conditions instead of an exact time.
You can plant new plants and trees:
1) when the ground is not frozen.
2) when daytime temperatures are above freezing (32ºF) and below 90ºF.
3) when extreme weather (blizzard, hail, torrential rain, etc.) is not in the forecast. Be sure to keep plants watered if you're transplanting in warm and/or dry weather.
If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to reach back out to us. Have a great day!
The Red Push Pistache tree has a moderate to fast growth rate of about 12–24 inches per year.
Red push pistache trees (Pistacia chinensis) change color throughout the season, from red to green to yellow to orange to red again. However, there are several reasons why a Chinese pistache might not turn red as well as expected, including:
Irrigation: Too much or too little water can cause leaves to drop or change color. Moon Valley Nurseries recommends watering red push pistache trees slowly and deeply, and adding an extra watering per week during hot weather.
Humidity: Humidity differences and summer stress can affect the tree's color.
Sunshine: Trees planted too close together can partially shade each other.
Tree maturity: Well-established trees generally show better color than younger trees.
Male or female: Female Chinese pistache trees produce small red seeds in the fall, but they don't usually turn as red as male trees.
When I did research on the Chinese Pistache, I read that the tree can grow 40’ wide and 50’ tall under ideal growing conditions.
Here in southern NewMexico, we have wild winds all through March and in early April, I see mine budding.
Yes this is a male variety.
Red Push Pistache Tree produce nuts?
No this is not a nut bearing tree.
When shipped, regular trees are about 3-4' tall and/or with a 3/8" or larger trunk diameter. A Stark® Supreme Tree is one of the season's top-grade, bare-root trees that gives you a head start on growing. When Supreme trees are shipped, they are about 4-5' tall and/or with a 5/8" or larger trunk diameter. However having leaves is not guaranteed as trees are going to be falling dormant soon .
Customer Reviews
Good condition trees.
Planted and growing.
Pretty much exactly what I wanted.
I MIGHT BE ORDERING ANOTHER ONE, FOR THE BACK YARD, AS I HAVE LIMITED SPACE, I THINK THAT THIS TREE, WOULD FIT NICELY, INTO THE SPACE I HAVE ASSIGNED.
shade, fall color, zone and size
I chose this Pistache tree because I have another one that I am so happy with. I live in the desert of southern AZ and this Pistache tree grows well, is heat and cold tolerant, drought tolerant, and…
4. Chinese Pistache (Pistacia chinensis) Growth Rate: Fast Height: 30–40 ft Fall Color: Bright orange-red Leaves: Compound and small Cleanliness: Very clean; no sap Root Behavior: Deep roots, safe for pavement
I was looking for a tree that does not have an invasive root system that could damage the septic system. From all my research this tree has a non-invasive root system. Having bright colors leaves in…