- Scientific name: Olea europaea subsp. africana
- Other Names: African Olive, Wild Olive, False Olive, Olienhout
- Origin: Southern Africa
- Position: Sun
- Water Requirements: Medium, drought tolerant once established
- Hardiness: Hardy
- Flower Color: -
- Flower Time: Summer
- Height: ±10m
- Spread: ±11m
- Other: Evergreen, Perennial, SA Tree No. 617
This neat, indigenous evergreen tree, is frost-, drought- and wind-resistant. The wild olive has beautiful wood for furniture, and is regarded as a small-fruited subspecies of the commercial olive.
The dark green and grey foliage makes this tree very attractive. The slow-growing frost, drought and wind-resistant wild olive makes a good shade or screen plant in the home garden, on golf courses and elsewhere. It is popular for bonsai, street planting, and for use at schools, office complexes, and in parks. It is perfect for dry areas where it is an excellent fodder plant for stock and game and it has also been used to stabilizeerosiondongas/ditches.
Don't plant it too close to walls, patios or swimming pools, the root system can sometimes be aggressive.
Available sizes:
100L
Product Code: OLEA01
Product Condition: New
weight: 50000.0g