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Olive
The Olive is an evergreen tree or shrub native to the Mediterranean, Asia
and parts of Africa.
It is short and squat, and rarely exceeds 8–15 meters
in height.
The silvery green leaves are oblong in shape, measuring 4–10 cm
long
and 1–3 cm wide.
The trunk is typically gnarled and twisted. The small
white flowers, with four-cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens and bifid stigma,
are borne generally on the last year's wood, in racemes springing
from the axils of the leaves.
The fruit is a small drupe 1–2.5 cm long,
thinner-fleshed and smaller in wild plants than in orchard cultivars.
Olives
are harvested at the green
stage or left to ripen to a rich purple color (black olive).
Canned black olives
may contain chemicals that turn them black artificially.
Source: Wikipedia
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