On this Wikipedia olive garden breadstick bouquet language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. This article is about the tree and the fruit.

For olive oil, see Olive oil. Olive grove”, “Olive tree”, and “Olive wood” redirect here. Distribution map, with Olea europaea subsp. This article contains Linear B Unicode characters. Also in multiple other languages the word for “oil” ultimately derives from the name of this tree and its fruit.

The olive tree, Olea europaea, is an evergreen tree or shrub native to Mediterranean Europe, Asia, and Africa. The trunk is typically gnarled and twisted. The small, white, feathery flowers, with ten-cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens, and bifid stigma, are borne generally on the previous year’s wood, in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves. Olives are harvested in the green to purple stage.