Fruitless Olive Tree Flowers
This fruitless variety does not produce fruit eliminating any messy fruit drop maintenance and possible allergic reactions to pollen produced by the flowers.
Fruitless olive tree flowers. This feature has resulted in the swan hill fruitless olive tree becoming more popular. Make sure to choose cultivars that are fruitless such as wilsonii or monher. This variety has a slow to. Archaeological evidence has been discovered suggesting that the trees grew.
With no fruit there s no pollen. Because of extensive dropping of fruits. It can live for more than 150 years. Fruitless olive trees olea europaea wilsonii have many of the same characteristics as the manzanillo trees and mission olive trees we sell except for one thing this olive tree does not bear fruit.
Flowers often produce pollen to which many are allergic. Since the tree doesn t put energy into making fruit it grows a little faster than fruiting olive trees. Olive trees are slow growers usually reaching heights of 25 to 30 feet. The fruitless olive is a distinctive evergreen that grows at a slow to medium rate to twenty five to thirty feet tall and wide and has an airy appearance.
Fruitless olive tree varieties wilsonii. The number of flowers that then mature into olives is dependent on a number of factors. Growing fruitless olive trees eliminates these issues. Fruitless olive trees are native to the mediterranean and boast soft gray green willow like foliage.
Olive trees fruiting and fruitless descended from mediterranean olives olea europaea. With no fruit there s no mess along your stonework pathway patio deck or poolside. Olive trees are best looking when planted in deep rich soil. This creates a problematic mess clogging drains and staining driveways and decks.
The flowers are sterile so few if any fruits are produced but some small probably non viable olives may develop from time to time. The swan hill olive is the most popular variety of fruitless olive tree. The fruits also attract undesirable wildlife. Fruiting olive trees are banned in some areas of the southwest u s.
Scientist have dated some fruit bearing olive trees throughout the mediterranean region to be 1600 to 3000 years old. Olive trees produce fruiting shoots called inflorescences which originate at the axil of a leaf. Moon valley nurseries ensures that our fruitless olive trees are truly fruitless. It was olive oil that was burned as the eternal flame in the first olympic games.
The rise in the use of olive trees in the home landscape spurred the introduction of smaller stature fruitless olives like majestic. However they are minimal and you will not notice them when they have fallen from the tree. Each inflorescence will typically contain 10 to 30 flowers depending on the cultivar.