olive
“Olive grove” and “Olive tree” redirect here. [1]
The olive tree boasts two prizes—the olive itself (called the table olive) and the precious oil pressed from the fruit's flesh. [2]
Canned black olives may contain chemicals (usually ferrous sulfate) that turn them black artificially. [1]
Oleaceae, the olives and relatives, is a plant family containing 24 extant genera of woody plants, including shrubs, trees and vines. [3]
Green olives are picked when they have reached their normal size, just before they change color. [4]
Olives grow erratically (unless the trees are cultivated and irrigated) and tend to either produce in alternate years or bear heavy crops and light ones alternately. [2]
The name olive also refers to the edible fruit of this tree, a small drupe that is major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil and as a food. [3]
The olive tree is known for its exceptional longevity. [4]
A Mediterranean evergreen tree (Olea europaea) having fragrant white flowers, usually lance-shaped leathery leaves, and edible drupes. [5]
The tree and its fruit give its name to the plant family, which also includes species such as lilacs, jasmine, Forsythia and the true ash trees (Fraxinus). [1]
The small ovoid fruit of this tree, an important food and source of oil. [5]
Olives mature on the tree and can be harvested for green table olives when the fruit is immature or left on the tree to ripen. [2]
Its fruit, also called the olive, is of major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil. [1]
Around 600 B.C., they had a merchant marine and stock market just for the oil trade. [2]
The olive tree produces an abundant quantity of fleshy fruit, whose size, flesh and color vary depending on variety, climate and method of cultivation. [4]
Sources:
[1] Olive - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] olives: Information from Answers.com
[3] Olive - New World Encyclopedia
[4] olive: Definition from Answers.com
[5] olive - definition of olive by the Free Online Dictionary …