Olive tree main characteristics

OLIVE TREE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS



The olive tree is a tree that belongs to botanical family Oleaceae, and in that family is the only kind with eateable fruit. The pricipal characterisitcs of the olive tree are:

- The leaves are dark for the bundle, with a characteristic sheen due to the existence of a thick cuticle and whitish for the back, simple, of lanceolate form and entire edges. Is a everlasting tree and his leaves are in the habit of living two or three years.

- The blossom is little.

- The trunk is thick and his bark is greyish.

- The fruit is the olive a small ovoid drupe of a very bitter taste, green yellowish color, oily flesh a time they have arrived to the maturity and with a bone that enclosses the seed.