Accession Data

Olea europaea

Common Name: Olive

Family: Oleaceae

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

Accession Date: 1985-12-31 00:00:00

Bloom Status: 🪴 Not Flowering

Location: 2104

Quantity: 1

Source: Unknown

Classification

Division: Magnoliophyta

Class: Magnoliopsida

Subclass: euasterid I

Order: Lamiales

Family: Oleaceae

Tribe: Oleeae

SubTribe: Oleinae

Flowering Data:

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References

  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.

Images

Olea europaea
Olea europaea