Shinos

Perhaps the most widespread shrub in the Greek flora and certainly the most resistant. In earlier years, they used rope branches to tie the bundles from the sparta they harvested and also in basket making. Even food for the animals was given in the winter by tender branches of linden.
If it belonged to the Pistachio family along with the mastic tree and the pistachio. They grow at low altitudes and in coastal areas. Often the shinos acquires a tree form and can reach a height of 5 meters. Its fruits are small, spherical with a bright red color. The creeper spreads quickly in all soils and is a problem for crops, as its roots are very resistant and, even if the bush is cut, they regrow very quickly. It is typical that after a fire the roots of the vine do not need more than 30 days to germinate again. This resistance makes the plant valuable for the flora of the island, which is often endangered by fires, but also by drought, in which also the schino shows admirable resistance, although, in case of prolonged drought and at the same time lack of moisture from the atmosphere and he still suffers disastrous consequences, but he soon recovers and makes all the mountains, even the most barren, green.
A little-known use of the fruits of the mountain ash is that they are used when ripe as a supplement to flour to make bread mainly for their aroma and astringent taste.