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Accession Data:

Olea europaea L.

  • subg. Olea sect. Olea

  • Common Name: Olive
  • Family: Oleaceae Hoffsgg. & Link.

  • Country of Origin: coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin

  • Description: The edible olive seems to have coexisted with humans for about 5,000 to 6,000 years, going back to the early Bronze Age (3150 to 1200 BC). Its origin can be traced to the Levant based on written tablets, olive pits, and wood fragments found in ancient tombs.4

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 198500974
  • Source: Unknown
  • Accession Date: 12-31-1985
  • Bench: 2104 - MED:Mediterranean D
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 1 confirmed on 12-20-2023

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: euasterid I
  • Order: Lamiales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Oleaceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe: Oleeae
  • SubTribe: Oleinae

Flowering Data:

This accession has been observed in bloom on:
YearJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
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References (internal):

  • Dye Plants
  • EEB 3271 - Systematic Botany
  • Medicinal Plants
  • Medicinal Plants - Traditional African Medicine
  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: Baleares / Portugal / Sardegna / Sicilia / Spain / Albania / Greece / Italy / Kriti / Turkey-in-Europe / Yugoslavia / Algeria / Libya / Morocco / Tunisia / Canary Is. / Madeira / Niger / Burundi / Rwanda / Zaire / Djibouti / Eritrea / Ethiopia / Somalia / Sudan / Kenya / Tanzania / Uganda / Angola / Malawi / Mozambique / Zambia / Zimbabwe / Botswana / Cape Provinces / Lesotho / Namibia / KwaZulu-Natal / Free State / Swaziland / Northern Provinces / Mauritius / Reunion / Afghanistan / Cyprus / East Aegean Is. / Palestine / Turkey / Oman / Saudi Arabia / Yemen / China South-Central / Nepal / Pakistan / West Himalaya /

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Thursday, October 26, 2017.
  2. WCSP (2017). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Facilitated by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Last accessed on Thursday, October 26, 2017.
  3. Image #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by en:User:Nickfraser (en:Image:Olivesfromjordan.jpg) [GFDL or CC-BY-SA-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons. Last accessed on Thursday, October 26, 2017.
  4. Olive at Wikipedia. Last accessed on Thursday, October 26, 2017.
  5. Plants for a Future. Last accessed on Monday, 18 November, 2019.

data regenerated on Sat, 05 Oct 2024 14:27:33 -0400 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Olea europaea

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Current Accessions in the Oleaceae

Subfamily
Tribe Oleeae

  • Fraxininae: Fraxinus americana W/C
  • Ligustrinae: Ligustrum ovalifolium
  • Oleinae: Olea europaea
  • Oleinae: Olea europea 'Manzanillo'

Subfamily Forsythieae

  • Forsythia x intermedia 'Variegata'

Subfamily Jasmineae

  • Jasminum laurifolium var. laurifolium
  • Jasminum nudiflorum
  • Jasminum officinale
  • Jasminum polyanthum
W/C = Wild Collected
= indicates flowering in past 14 days
= images available for this accession
= map available for this accession
= accession added within past 90 days
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