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'''''Olea''''' ({{pron-en|ˈoʊliːə}})<ref>''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607</ref> is a [[genus]] of about 20 species in the family [[Oleaceae]], native to warm temperate and tropical regions of southern [[Europe]], [[Africa]], southern [[Asia]] and [[Australasia]]. They are [[evergreen]] [[tree]]s and [[shrub]]s, with small, opposite, entire [[leaf|leaves]]. The [[fruit]] is a [[drupe]]. For humans, the most important species is by far the [[Olive]] (''Olea europaea''), native to the [[Mediterranean]] region. ''O. paniculata'' is a larger tree, attaining a height of 15-18 m in the forests of [[Queensland]], and yielding a hard and tough [[timber]]. The yet harder wood of the [[Black Ironwood]] ''O. laurifolia'', an inhabitant of [[KwaZulu-Natal Province|Natal]], is important in [[South Africa]]. {{Inc| Olea (classical name for olive). Oleaceae. Olive. The olive tree and fruit; and other small trees or shrubs of little importance in cultivation. (The Olea fragrans of greenhouses is Osmanthus; also O. Aquifolium.) Spiny or unarmed: Lvs. evergreen and thick, opposite, usually entire, and often rusty-tomentose beneath: fls. small, usually imperfect, white or whitish, in forking panicles or fascicles, the short calyx 4-toothed (corolla sometimes none), the short-tubed corolla with 4 valvate lobes, the stamens 2; ovary 2-loculed, bearing a short style and capitate stigma: fr. an oblong or ovoid drupe.—Between 30 and 40 trees or shrubs of the tropical and warm-temperate parts of the Old World to New Zeal. }} ==Cultivation== ===Propagation=== ===Pests and diseases=== ==Species== ;Selected species *''[[Olea brachiata]]'' *''[[Olea capensis]]'' (Small Ironwood) *''[[Olea caudatilimba]]'' *''[[Olea chryssophylla]]'', a wild olive of Asia and Africa *''[[Olive|Olea europaea]]'' (Olive) *''[[Olea exasperata]]'' (Dune Olive) *''[[Olea guangxiensis]]'' *''[[Olea hainanensis]]'' *''[[Olea laurifolia]]'' (Black Ironwood) *''[[Olea laxiflora]]'' *''[[Olea neriifolia]]'' *''[[Olea oleaster]]'', a wild olive whose cultivar "Olivastro" is used as rootstock for ''O. europaea''; formerly classified as the subspecies ''O. europaea oleaster'' *''[[Olea paniculata]]'' *''[[Olea parvilimba]]'' *''[[Olea rosea]]'' *''[[Olea salicifolia]]'' *''[[Olea sylvestris]]'', a small-fruited wild olive of the Mediterranean region, sometimes used as rootstock for ''O. europaea''. *''[[Olea tetragonoclada]]'' *''[[Olea tsoongii]]'' *''[[Olea undulata]]'' *''[[Olea woodiana]]'' (Forest Olive) ==Gallery== <gallery perrow=5> Image:Upload.png| photo 1 Image:Upload.png| photo 2 Image:Upload.png| photo 3 </gallery> ==References== <references/> *[[Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture]], by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963    ==External links== *{{wplink}} {{stub}} __NOTOC__

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