Unlike the Toba Kakar Range to the north-east, which has scattered juniper, tamarisk and pistachio trees, the Ras Koh Hills are largely barren and devoid of vegetation.
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And " Cevizli "-which is also a Turkish word meaning " has nuts ", named after the village's main floral representatives, the walnut and pistachio trees.
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The climate is continental and dry, the different habitats of Tigrovaya Balka comprise semideserts, savanna-like grasslands with pistachio trees and tugay vegetation with Russian silverberry and high grasses.
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Researchers say the greenish patina of most of the coffins is a result of varnish made from pistachio trees, probably imported from groves of Haifa, now a port city in Israel.
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The ten years following the war saw much ecological and agrarian destruction from wiping out the country's trees through logging practices, which has destroyed all but 2 % of forest cover country-wide, to substantial uprooting of wild pistachio trees for the exportation of their roots for therapeutic uses, to opium agriculture.
