Picual Olive Tree Height
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Picual olive tree height. It has be pruned this way to aid the production of olives. Picual is the most important variety in spain accounting for more than 1 700 000 acres. Olive trees can reach 10m in height though this can be contained by pruning or growing in a large container. This picual olive tree is ideal for adding some height to your garden or creating a focal point for your patio.
It is considered tolerant of salinity and excess soil moisture but sensitive to drought and calcareous soils. It is cold tolerant and highly adaptable. Olive trees are usually purchased in either 4 inch pots with numerous side branches and a height of 18 24 inches or in a 1 gallon pot with a single trunk and a height of 4 5 feet. There are varieties of cold hardy olive trees including zone 7 olive trees that thrive in regions you might not have expected to be olive friendly.
Unless you are growing an olive tree for a strictly ornamental purpose it is most advisable to plant a specimen with a single trunk for ease of harvest. The trees are evergreen long lived beautiful ornamentals with soft gray green foliage. Mature height small 4 8m medium 8 12m large 12 20m giant 20m we are specialists in the environmentally sustainable production of premium quality advanced landscaping trees and screens. Some varieties are self fertile but as a general rule more than one variety of olive should be planted to ensure good pollination if fruit is desired.
Pisciottana a unique variety comprising 40 000 trees found only in the area around pisciotta in the campania region of southern italy often exceeds this with correspondingly large trunk diameters. Olive trees are perfect container trees as they need plenty of drainage but can be planted in the ground if you prefer. Olive trees do not do well in windy locations. The olive tree olea europaea is an evergreen tree or shrub native to the mediterranean asia and africa it is short and squat and rarely exceeds 8 15 m 26 49 ft in height.
The arbequina olive tree olea europaea arbequina not only provides the home landscape with a yearly crop of olives but also adds beauty with its gray green. When you think about an olive tree you probably imagine it growing somewhere hot and dry like southern spain or greece these beautiful trees that produce such delicious fruits are not just for the hottest climates though. Trees can grow up to 20 outdoors in hot climates. Picual is a tree of medium vigor and a spreading growth habit.
In a container on a patio or indoors it will remain compact measuring 7 10 at full maturity with regular pruning.