If you are here it is because you are looking for olive plant. The first thing you should know is that those delicious olives that you have consumed are not produced by a plant that you can grow in a garden pot.
The olive (Olea europaea), also known as olivera or olive is the tree that produces the olives that you have enjoyed. The olive is a tree that requires a lot of sun, space and several years of care to get started to produce
Olive trees are trees typical of the Mediterranean climate that can live several thousand years. Outside the Mediterranean climateis usually more sensitive to diseases and its production capacity may be limited.
Olive trees produce table olives and olive oil. Both top quality products appreciated internationally.
What plant do olives come from?
There are hundreds of different olive varieties and not all produce olives for table consumption.
In Spain, the most popular table olive varieties are: Manzanilla Sevillana, Gordal Sevillana, Manzanilla Cacereña, Hojiblanca, Morisca and Verdial de Badajoz.
Olives harvested in Spain are mainly used for the production of olive oil. Being the Picual olive oil, Cornicabra, Hojiblanca and Arbequina the most abundant.
Black or green olives plant
If you want buy a olive tree plant to produce black olives, before you should know that the black olives that are consumed usually leave olives harvested in green.
The green olives are obscured by an oxidation process. During this process, air is bubbled into the olives deposits.
When olives are ruled black, the tissues are softer. In addition, ripe olives do not support fermentation and sweetening phases well.
It is also possible to find dried black olives, in Spain it is typical to use the variety Black from Sabiñan with this finish. For this use, the olives must become “sweet” when ripe, with few varieties that support this use.
Recommended reading
Now that we have clarified the doubts about the olive plant, you may be interested to know more about the olive tree cultivation.
At present, olive cultivation is being converted through mechanization and planting of super high density olive groves.
Much progress has also been made in olive tree pests and diseases control, applying control techniques and selective treatments against the fly, black scale, olive moth…
Here ends our publication on olive plant, we hope you liked it.
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