Olives
Olea
Olea /ˈoʊliːə/ is a genus of about 40 species in the family Oleaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of southern Europe, Africa, southern Asia, and Australasia. They are evergreen trees and shrubs, with small, opposite, entire leaves. The fruit is a drupe. Leaves of Olea contain trichosclereids.
10 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Olive
speciesOlea europaea
Black Ironwood
speciesOlea capensis
Dune olive
speciesOlea exasperata
Australian Olive
speciesOlea paniculata
Olea dioica
speciesOlea dioica
Forest Olive
speciesOlea woodiana
Olea lancea
speciesOlea lancea
Chimanimani Olive
speciesOlea chimanimani
Olea welwitschii
speciesOlea welwitschii
Olea hochstetteri
speciesOlea hochstetteri
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The Dutch Herbarium or Herbal
Petrus Nylandt · 1670 · p.35
Flora of Japan
Carl Peter Thunberg · 1784 · p.70
Illustrated Compendium of Materia Medica (Vol. 27)
吳其濬 · 1848 · p.72
Hortus Eystettensis
Basilius Besler · 1640 · p.156
The natural history of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands : containing two hundred a...
Catesby, Mark, bioloog, kunstenaar · 1743 · p.90
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.152
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.703
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.237
History of Plants in Four Books
Valerius Cordus · 1561 · p.392
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1563 · p.648
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.290
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.291
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Olea in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 57145.