Olive
ಆಲಿವ್जैतूनஐரோப்பிய இடலை
Olea europaea L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Little
- tall
- 8.8 m
- wide
- 6.1 m
Oleaceae
Also called European olive, African Olive, Wild Olive, Olive tree
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- Shrub or treeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- SubtropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Africa, Medit. to SC. ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Height
- 8.1 m to 9.6 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 20–30 ft; Wikipedia 10–10 m
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -11.1 °C (USDA zone 8a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension -12.2 °C; Wikipedia -10 °C
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- root
- guie'yaasé, Ulîv, Jaétun
- Portuguese
- Oliveira, Zambujeiro
- Spanish
- olivo, acebuche
- Russian
- Олива европейская, Олива культурная, Маслина европейская
- Belarusian
- Масліна еўрапейская, Масліна культурная
- Catalan
- Olivera
- French
- Oliviers
- Esperanto
- Olivarbo
- Czech
- Olivovník evropský
- Estonian
- Harilik õlipuu
- Finnish
- Öljypuu, öljyoliivipuu
- Hebrew
- זית אירופי
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Olea europaea (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.