A recent study has unveiled the genetic blueprint behind flowering time in olive trees, a crucial trait for fruit production that is increasingly under threat from climate change.

Olives are the fruit of the olive tree, Olea europaea, meaning “European olive.” Olive trees are grown throughout the Mediterranean Basin as well as in South America, South Africa, India ...

These communities may have used wild olives for multiple purposes—fruit, wood, and even forage for animals. However, it wasn't until modern times that large-scale olive cultivation became ...

Olives is a literate and lively story of a tree, the fruit and the oil it yields, and the robust and colorful characters who make their living from this most Mediterranean of crops. This is not a ...

Experiment with different varieties until you find a favourite. The fleshy pulp of the fruit is also the source of olive oil. The whole fruit is available in a variety of guises: flavoured ...

Olive Oil gives not only gives this fruit cake an incredible tenderness and moistness (no more dry horrid fruit cake!) but it also lends a gorgeous fruity herbaceous flavour that lifts a “plain ...