Olive
Olea europaea · Oleaceae · 올리브나무
How to spot it
Opposite leathery leaves are gray-green above and covered with silvery hairs beneath; old trunks become twisted.
Look
- Leaves
- Opposite leaves are gray-green above and silvery beneath from a covering of hairs.
- Flowers
- Small, fragrant white flowers in panicles from the leaf axils.
- Fruit
- The drupe is green at first and turns purplish black when ripe. Each fruit holds one hard stone.
- Bark
- Young bark is smooth and gray; with age it becomes bent, twisted and furrowed.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- The Mediterranean region, Africa, and central and southern China.
- Ecology
- Suited to hot, dry summers and mild, wet winters, and tolerates drought once established. Birds and small mammals spread the seeds.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources / Olive tree phenology
- 국립생물자원관, 국가생물종목록 I(2019)
- 아폴로도로스 『도서관』 3.14 (Perseus 디지털 도서관)
- 헤로도토스 『역사』 8.55 (A. D. Godley 영역, 1920, Perseus 디지털 도서관)
- 파우사니아스 『그리스 안내기』 1.27.2 (W.H.S. Jones·H.A. Ormerod 영역, 1918, Perseus 디지털 도서관)
- Acropolis Museum(아크로폴리스 박물관) 'The Erechtheion'