Russian Olive Tree The European Olive Tree (eleagnus angustifolia) is a very common tree in the in the upper midwestern part of the United States. The Olives belong to the large family Oleaceae, a collection of some six hundered species of trees and shrubs including such well-known groups as ashes, privets, lilacs, forsythias, jasmines and osmanthus. Spread right across the world, there are about twenty trees represented in the true Olea group. By far the most important member of the group, this is native to Asia Minor and Syria. It has been cultivated since prehistoric times and is now grown all over the Mediterranean region with the best orchards in Spain, France, Italy and more recently introduced in California. Olive trees grow slowly , naturally reaching only a maximum height of about 50 feet and are nearly always pruned to keep the branches low for harvesting. The form of old trees is extraordinary with a rugged gnarled trunk, full of fissures and irregular cavities and branches twisting and curving in all directions. The yellowish and brown timber hard but smoothgrained and with attractive markings, is greatly valued for carving, turney, inlay work, walking sticks and small joinery. The narrowly ovoid opposite evergreen leaves 2-3 inches lond, grey-green above, silvery beneath are leathery and pitted; the white flowers, very small, are in racemes, the familiar oval fruits, about 1 inch long, containing one hard stone, are green at first but ripen during the winter months, slowly turning through red to black. European Olive Tree The European Olive Tree (Olea eruopaea) is a very common tree in the in the upper midwestern part of the United States. The Olives belong to the large family Oleaceae, a collection of some six hundered species of trees and shrubs including such well-known groups as ashes, privets, lilacs, forsythias, jasmines and osmanthus. Spread right across the world, there are about twenty trees represented in the true Olea group. By far the most important member of the group, this is native to Asia Minor and Syria. It has been cultivated since prehistoric times and is now grown all over the Mediterranean region with the best orchards in Spain, France, Italy and more recently introduced in California. Olive trees grow slowly , naturally reaching only a maximum height of about 50 feet and are nearly always pruned to keep the branches low for harvesting. The form of old trees is extraordinary with a rugged gnarled trunk, full of fissures and irregular cavities and branches twisting and curving in all directions. The yellowish and brown timber hard but smoothgrained and with attractive markings, is greatly valued for carving, turney, inlay work, walking sticks and small joinery. The narrowly ovoid opposite evergreen leaves 2-3 inches lond, grey-green above, silvery beneath are leathery and pitted; the white flowers, very small, are in racemes, the familiar oval fruits, about 1 inch long, containing one hard stone, are green at first but ripen during the winter months, slowly turning through red to black. Back to Trees

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