Also known as oleaster, the Russian olive tree is a compact deciduous tree or shrub growing to 10-15 meters (35-50 feet) high and has flexible branches, being the best windbreak tree.
This decorative tree produces small clusters of fragrant, silvery-yellow flowers that generally appear during May through July. The tiny yellow flowers carry a very sweet scent, over large areas.
It can form a dense shrub layer to close open areas.
Long, narrow, silvery-gray leaves and brown shedding bark are among the attractions of this tree.
Blooms on this tree turn into hard, olive-shaped edible fruits, which stay on the trees all winter, good food source for birds. Squirrels gather and store these seeds too.
The heavy rainstorms from last two weeks were a hard test for these trees, too hard, for some of them. This one, in the next picture, gave up the fight.
4 comments:
Very pretty tree/shrub. Big plus that it has a sweet aroma.
First, those olives look delicious. I love olives of all types. A beautiful tree as well. Thanks for all the information on this, I love learning something new about nature so this was a fun post.
I don't think I've come across this shrub before. I wonder why its not popular here as having those fruits on all winter would make it a useful shrub in the garden with a couple of seasons of interest. Its leaves look so lovely and soft too.
This is a lovely tree Maia. We have had terrible storms here where I live the past week - uprooting many beautiful trees and causing much damage.
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