Olive

Olea europaea

Family: Oleaceae

Tree

Green olives are picked unripe while black olives are left to ripen.

There are 100’s of cultivars of the olive tree.

By Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler's Medizinal-Pflanzen
Green Olive
Olive Oil
Black Olive
Black Olive

» Black Olive is common in these Cuisines

 Italy
 Spain

» Black Olive is common in these Cuisines

 Italy
 Spain


The Oleaceae Family

a family of flowering shrubs and trees
AKA: the olive family

Kingdom: Plantae   Clades: Tracheophytes, Angiosperms, Eudicots, Asterids   Order: Lamiales