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Olea europaea
Olive Tree
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Photographer: Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
ID: 0000 0000 0324 0415 (2024-03-12)Copyright © 2024 Dr. Amadej Trnkoczy
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date of photo Apr 24, 2006
latitude 44.38110 longitude 14.78580
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location
Adriatic Sea, island Olib, outskirts of village Olib, next to the path to Slatinica Bay, Mediterranean phytogeographical region, Zadar archipelago, Dalmatia, Croatia. (Zadar region, Croatia)family
Oleaceae
notes Comments: The following text pertains to the pictures in a Flickr album of Olea europaea or the Olive tree. The olive tree is a remarkable plant found in the Mediterranean region. It holds great symbolic significance in all Mediterranean cultures and is one of the oldest cultivated plants known to man. The oldest olive trees are believed to be over 3,000 years old. It was initially grown for its healthy oil and is so common in gardens and olive groves all around the Mediterranean Sea that it is difficult to find a truly wild species today. In the Croatian Adriatic Sea shore, there are about 3.5 million olive trees (Ref.: 4) that grow in a large part of unmaintained olive groves today. Many fewer have 'escaped' from there and grow in the wild. All the pictures in the album show cultivated plants. There is only a single place along the entire east Adriatic coast and its thousand islands, where original wild olive trees grow. This place is near the town of Lun on the island of Pag, where about 1.500 very old trees grow (Ref.: 4). However, even these trees may have been influenced by humans, and scientists are not entirely sure if they are truly autochthonous there. Various methods have been used throughout history to reproduce olive trees, including vegetative, by grafts, by seeds, and by crossing, and then left to grow for centuries, following their laws of proliferation, and used again agriculturally. As a result, olive trees are genetically extremely diverse, and no two plants have the same genetic pattern, representing a vital genetic treasure. Currently, botanically, more than 300 different variants of the species are recognized. Ref.: (1) A. Martinči et all., Mala Flora Slovenije (Flora of Slovenia - Key) (in Slovenian), Tehnična Založba Slovenije (2007), p 504. (2) T. Nikolić, Flora Croatica, Vaskularna flora Republike Hrvatske, Vol. 3. Alfa d.d.. Zagreb (2020) p 184. (3) Euro+Med 2006+ [continuously updated]: Euro+Med PlantBase - the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity. – Published at http://www.europlusmed.org [accessed March 10. 2024] (4) R. Brus, Drevesa in grmi Jadrana (Trees and bushes of Adria) (in Slovene), Modrijan Pub, (2012), p 494.camera Nikon D70 /AF-S Nikorr 18-70mm/f3.5-4.5G ED
contributor's ID # Bot_0115/2006_DSC_0128 photo category: Plant - tree
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