Olive


 
 
Olive

:For alternate senses of this word see olive (disambiguation).

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The Olive (Olea europaea) is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean region, from Syria and the maritime parts of Asia Minor. It is also thought to be indigenous in Greece. Olive trees shows a marked preference for calcareous soils and a partiality for the sea breeze, flourishing best on limestone slopes and crags.

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The natural wild Olive is a small tree or shrub to 8 m tall with rather straggling growth and thorny branches. The leaves are opposite, oblong pointed, 4-10 cm long and 1-3 cm broad, dark greyish-green above and, in the young state, hoary beneath with whitish scales. The small white flowers, with four-cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens and bifid stigma, are borne generally on the last year's wood, in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves. The fruit in the wild plant is small drupe 1-2 cm long, and the fleshy pericarp, which gives the cultivated olive its economic value, is comparatively thin.

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Species: In biology, the most commonly used definition of species was first coined by Ernst Mayr. Species are "groups of actually or potentially interbreeding natural populations which are reproductively isolated from other such groups" (however, see other definitions of species below)....

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Olive Branch I
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Olive Branch III
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Jason Olive
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Martini Olive
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Tuscan Olive Grove
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Aromatic Olive Oil
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Tuscan Olive Grove

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Introduction
Cultivation and uses
Pests and diseases
See also
External links
 
FR: Olivier (arbre)


 

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Stigma (1) - Raceme (1) - Axil (1) - Calyx (1) - Corolla (1) - Stamen (1) - Fruit (1) - Ernst Mayr (1) - Population (1) - Definitions of species (1) - Drupe (1) - Pericarp (1) - Biology (1) - Oleaceae (1) - Mediterranean (1) -
 

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