Olea Europaea , Olive Tree, Conical Shape

2.5-3.0m

Europaea or Olive Tree شجرة زيتون is slow-growing, evergreen tree, developing a rounded head, with opposite, leathery, elliptic to lance-shaped, irregularly toothed leaves, to 8cm long, grey-green above, silvery grey-green beneath. Tiny, fragrant, creamy-white flowers are borne in axillary panicles, to 5cm long, in summer, followed by edible, spherical to ovoid green fruit (olives), to 4cm long, ripening to black.

Europaean olive, fruit trees, Olea europea, Olive, Olive Tree, شجرة زيتون