Noted for growing commercially harvested olives, Olea europaea is an evergreen tree native to the Mediterranean region with gray-green leaves and fragrant small white flowers that bloom in the summer. Flowers give way to oval green drupes olives) that ripen to black. Young trees have showy smooth gray bark that will gnarl with age.
Noted for growing commercially harvested olives, Olea europaea is an evergreen tree native to the Mediterranean region with gray-green leaves and fragrant small white flowers that bloom in the summer. Flowers give way to oval green drupes olives) that ripen to black. Young trees have showy smooth gray bark that will gnarl with age.
Winter hardy. Best in fertile well-drained soil. Needs 2 months of sub-50 degree to flower.
