Catalog of available olives

If you would like to submit a request for plant material, please visit our Products & Services page for an order form

The olive is one of the most significant plants of the Mediterranean basin. It was the principle source for thousands of years of edible oil to the people of this region. The family Oleaceae genus Olea contains about 35 species distributed widely from Africa to New Zealand. We house three of these here. The olive tree that we know today probably originated as a hybrid swarm in the mountains of the eastern Mediterranean.

Questions about our olive collection can be directed to Jenny Smith

Links to non-federal olive related sites:

Desert Tropicals

 California Rare Fruit Growers

University of Georgia

Some information for this page was obtained from: Evolution of Crop Plants. N. W. Simmonds. Longman Group Limited. London and New York. 1976

 Crop Pages

Actinidia (kiwifruit)   Cudrania (mulberry relative)   Diospyros (persimmon)   Ficus (fig)    Juglans (walnut)   Olea (olives)   Morus (mulberry)   Pistacia (pistachio)   Prunus (peach, plum, apricot, cherry, almond, and related species)   Pterocarya (walnut relative)   Punica (pomegranate)   Vitis (grape)