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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]].
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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]].
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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.)
 
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.)
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*''[[Olea brachiata]]''
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*''[[Olea capensis]]'' (Small Ironwood)
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*''[[Olea caudatilimba]]''
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*''[[Olea chryssophylla]]'', a wild olive of Asia and Africa
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*''[[Olive|Olea europaea]]'' (Olive)
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*''[[Olea exasperata]]'' (Dune Olive)
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*''[[Olea guangxiensis]]''
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*''[[Olea hainanensis]]''
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*''[[Olea laurifolia]]'' (Black Ironwood)
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*''[[Olea laxiflora]]''
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*''[[Olea neriifolia]]''
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*''[[Olea oleaster]]'', a wild olive whose cultivar "Olivastro" is used as  rootstock for ''O. europaea''; formerly classified as the subspecies ''O. europaea oleaster''
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*''[[Olea paniculata]]''
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*''[[Olea parvilimba]]''
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*''[[Olea rosea]]''
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*''[[Olea salicifolia]]''
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*''[[Olea sylvestris]]'', a small-fruited wild olive of the Mediterranean region, sometimes used as rootstock for ''O. europaea''.
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*''[[Olea tetragonoclada]]''
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*''[[Olea tsoongii]]''
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*''[[Olea undulata]]''
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*''[[Olea woodiana]]'' (Forest Olive)
  
 
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Latest revision as of 20:18, 22 February 2010


Olea europaea (Olive)


Plant Characteristics
Cultivation
Scientific Names

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Olea (pronounced /ˈoʊliːə/)[1] 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 trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire 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 Natal, is important in South Africa.


Read about Olea in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 

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.


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Cultivation

Propagation

Pests and diseases

Species

Selected species

Gallery

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References

  1. ↑ Sunset Western Garden Book, 1995:606–607

External links


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