AusBonsai

So after a pretty crap weekend weather wise snapped a pic of my large olive getting the morning sun after a frosty -2 start. Hope you guys enjoy .

Wow!
Cheers
Kirky

That's a big boy

benbonsai wrote:That's a big boy

It does "TEST YOUR MIGHT" come repotting time .

gorgeous mate

This guy is fruiting at the moment . got about 70 or so olives on it this year . They do not take the shape of a conventional olive . They stay quite round just get bigger . We have never really figured exactly what cultivar it is . it was a wild removal central coast NSW decades ago.

Very nice tree! It is likely to be an African Olive (Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata) if it was a feral tree collected from the NSW coast.

That's what I was going to suggest too Mike. African olives generally have greener leaves without the silver back that European olives have. Also smaller, rounded fruit. They are also an environmental weed through much of NSW, all of which fits this one quite well.
African olive (Olea europaea ssp Africana) is usually treated as a distinct sub species of the European olive (Olea europaea)

I have not seen either flowers or fruit on any of my olives. possibly too young or maybe constant pruning removes the buds.

Hi all,
Very different leaf shape to the “usual “ olive? African olive usually has a recursive leaf tip ( a hook on the end of leaf) the leaves in the pics are quite rounded? I’ve never seen olive leaves like that before?
Tim


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The fruit are still holding . They don't change colour and this is about as large as they get. A pic of the trunk too. Now this has gotten bigger over the past few years . Some surface roots starting to become more apparent as well .