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Wild Olive
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Wild olive is a common name for several plants and may refer to: *''Bontia daphnoides'' * Several species in the genus ''Elaeagnus'' (family Elaeagnaceae), particularly: **''Elaeagnus angustifolia'' **''Elaeagnus latifolia'' *''Halesia carolina'' (family Styracaceae) *''Nyssa aquatica'', an American swamp-growing tree (family Cornaceae) * ''Olea europaea'' subsp. ''cuspidata'' *''Olea oleaster'', a species related to the cultivated olive tree (family Oleaceae) *''Osmanthus americanus'' (family Elaeagnaceae) See also *Native olive Native olive is a common name for several plants and may refer to: *''Bursaria incana'' (Pittosporaceae) *'' Bursaria spinosa'' (Pittosporaceae) *'' Chionanthus ramiflorus'' (Oleaceae) *'' Notelaea ligustrina'' (Oleaceae) *'' Notelaea lloydii'' (Ole ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bontia Daphnoides
''Bontia daphnoides'', commonly known as wild olive or white alling, is the only species of the flowering plant genus ''Bontia'' in the family Scrophulariaceae. It is a shrub or small tree growing on many Caribbean islands both as a wild plant and cultivated in gardens. Description ''Bontia daphnoides'' is a shrub or small tree sometimes growing to a height of with a trunk up to in diameter. The bark is light brown, thick and grooved. Its leaves are arranged alternately, mostly long, wide, elliptic in shape with a mid-vein visible on the lower surface. They are crowded on the ends of the branches and have many small oil glands. The flowers are arranged singly in the axils of leaves on a stalk long. There are 5 egg-shaped, green pointed sepals which have hairy edges and the petals are joined at their bases to form a tube long. The tube has two lobes of different sizes and the lower one is rolled back and covered on its upper surface with a dense layer of purple hairs. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeagnus
''Elaeagnus'' , silverberry or oleaster, is a genus of about 50–70 species of flowering plants in the family Elaeagnaceae. Description ''Elaeagnus'' plants are deciduous or evergreen shrubs or small trees. The alternate leaves and the shoots are usually covered with tiny silvery to brownish scales, giving the plants a whitish to grey-brown colour from a distance. The flowers are small, with a four-lobed calyx and no petals; they are often fragrant. The fruit is a fleshy drupe containing a single seed; it is edible in many species. Several species are cultivated for their fruit, including ''E. angustifolia'', ''E. umbellata'', and ''E. multiflora'' (gumi). ''E. umbellata'' contains the carotenoid lycopene. Taxonomy The genus ''Elaeagnus'' was erected in 1754 by Carl Linnaeus, who attributed the name to Joseph Pitton de Tournefort. There is agreement that the name is based on Theophrastus's use of the Ancient Greek (, latinized to ) as the name of a shrub. The first part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeagnus Angustifolia
''Elaeagnus angustifolia'', commonly called Russian olive, silver berry, oleaster, or wild olive, is a species of ''Elaeagnus'', native to western and central Asia, Iran, from southern Russia and Kazakhstan to Turkey, parts of Pakistan and parts of India. , it is widely established in North America as an introduced species. Description ''Elaeagnus angustifolia'' is a usually thorny shrub or small tree growing to in height. Its stems, buds, and leaves have a dense covering of silvery to rusty scales. The leaves are alternate, lanceolate, long and broad, with a smooth margin. The plants begin to flower and fruit from 3 years old. The highly aromatic flowers, produced in clusters of one to three, are 1 cm long with a four-lobed creamy yellow calyx; they appear in early summer and are followed by clusters of fruit, a small cherry-like drupe long, orange-red covered in silvery scales. The fruits are about 1 cm wide and sweet, though with a dryish, mealy texture. The spec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elaeagnus Latifolia
''Elaeagnus latifolia'', known as the bastard oleaster, or soh-sang, is a species of ''Elaeagnus'' native to India and Southeast Asia. Description ''Elaeagnus latifolia'' is an evergreen shrub that can grow up to ten feet tall. It has alternate pinnately compound leaves. The plant gives off a bright red and speckled berry around the size of a grape or ~0.75 cm in diameter. The ripe fruit is pulpy with a sweet and slightly sour taste. Ecology ''E. latifolia'' is widely distributed from Southeastern Asia to the slopes of the Himalayas. They inhabit dense swamps at about 1,500 feet above sea level in the Himalayas as well as dwelling in vast forest openings in Nepal. It is suitable for growing in moist soil with any pH value and can also adapt to growing in regions where the soil is dry. Since ''E. latifolia'' can thrive in both moist and dry conditions, it can tolerate the most intense droughts. ''E. latifolia'' shares a symbiotic relationship with soil-dwelling bacteria that per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Halesia Carolina
''Halesia carolina'', commonly called Carolina silverbell or little silverbell, is a species of flowering plant in the family Styracaceae, native to the southeastern United States. Description It is a vigorous, fast-growing deciduous shrub or tree growing to tall by broad, bearing masses of pendent, bell-shaped white flowers which appear in spring before the leaves. The flowers are followed by green, four-winged fruit. The leaves turn yellow in autumn. Range The range of little silverbells is very restricted. It is principally in the panhandle of Florida, with isolated smaller outlier populations in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. In the cited reference, this species is referred to as ''Halesia parviflora''. The "champion" ''Halesia carolina'' on the 2015 American Forests' National Register of Champion Trees is quite removed from its natural range, being situated in Roxbury, New Hampshire. Taxonomy There is a great deal of confusion in the four-winged American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyssa Aquatica
''Nyssa aquatica'', commonly called the water tupelo, cottongum, wild olive, large tupelo, tupelo-gum, or water-gum, is a large, long-lived tree in the tupelo genus ''(Nyssa)'' that grows in swamps and floodplains in the Southeastern United States. ''Nyssa aquatica'' trunks have a swollen base that tapers up to a long, clear bole, and its root system is periodically under water. Water tupelo trees often occurs in pure stands. Names ''Nyssa aquaticas genus name ''(Nyssa)'' refers to a Greek water nymph; the species epithet ''aquatica'', meaning ‘aquatic’, refers to its swamp and wetland habitat. One of the species' common names, tupelo, is of Native American origin, coming from the Creek words ''ito'' ‘tree’ and ''opilwa'' ‘swamp’; it was in use by the mid-18th century Uses A large mature tree can produce commercial timber used for furniture and crates. The swollen base of the ''Nyssa aquatica'' is the source of a favored wood of wood carvers. Many kinds of w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olea Europaea Subsp
''Olea'' ( ) is a genus of about 40 species in the family Oleaceae, native to warm temperate and tropical regions of the Middle East, 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. For humans, the most important and familiar species is by far the olive (''Olea europaea''), native to the Mediterranean region, Africa, southwest Asia, and the Himalayas, which is the type species of the genus. The native olive (''O. paniculata'') is a larger tree, attaining a height of 15–18 m in the forests of Queensland, and yielding a hard and tough timber. The yet harder wood of the black ironwood ''O. capensis'', an inhabitant of Natal, is important in South Africa. ''Olea'' species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including double-striped pug. Species Species accepted: # ''Olea ambrensis'' H.Perrier - Madag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olea Oleaster
''Olea oleaster'', the wild-olive, has been considered by various botanists a valid species and a of the cultivated olive tree, '''', which is a tree of multiple origins that was domesticated, it now appears, at various places during the fourth and third millennia BCE, in selections drawn from varying local populations. The wild-olive (Ancient Greek κότινος/''kótinos''), which ancient Greeks distinguished from the cultivated olive tree (Ancient Greek ἐλαία/ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Osmanthus Americanus
''Cartrema americana'', commonly called American olive, wild olive, or devilwood, is an evergreen shrub or small tree native to southeastern North America, in the United States from Virginia to Texas, and in Mexico from Nuevo León south to Oaxaca and Veracruz. ''Cartrema americana'' was formerly classified as ''Osmanthus americanus''. Following the discovery that ''Osmanthus'' was polyphyletic,Shi-Quan Guo, Min Xiong, Chun-Feng Ji, Zhi-Rong Zhang, De-Zhu Li and Zhi-Yong Zhang, Molecular phylogenetic reconstruction of ''Osmanthus'' Lour. (Oleaceae) and related genera based on three chloroplast intergenic spacers, Plant Syst Evol (2011) 294:57–64 it was transferred to the segregate genus ''Cartrema'' together with ''Osmanthus floridanus''Nesom, G.L. 2012. Synopsis of American ''Cartrema'' (Oleaceae). Phytoneuron 2012-96: 1–11. and five Asian species.José Ignacio De Juana Clavero, Cambios nomenclaturales en la sección Leiolea (Spach) P. S. Green, del género Osmanthus Lour. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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