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Olea europaea L.

Synonyms

Olea pallida

Common names

Olive tree

Extract from Wikipedia article

The olive (/ˈɒlɪv/ or /ˈɑːləv/, Olea europaea, meaning "olive from/of Europe") is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found in much of Africa, the Mediterranean Basin from Portugal to the Levant, the Arabian Peninsula, and southern Asia as far east as China, as well as the Canary Islands, Mauritius and Réunion. The species is cultivated in many places and considered naturalized in France, Corsica, Greece, Crimea, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Lebanon, Java, Norfolk Island, California and Bermuda.[+]

Olive tree (Olea europaea) in Aspire Park. Doha, Qatar, November 23, 2014
Sand Trail, Doha, Qatar

Olive tree (Olea europaea) in Aspire Park. Doha, Qatar, April 9, 2015
Aspire Park Running Trail, Doha, Qatar

Olive tree (Olea europaea) in Aspire Park. Doha, Qatar, April 21, 2015
Aspire Park Running Trail, Doha, Qatar

Olive tree (Olea europaea) in Aspire Park. Doha, Qatar, April 29, 2015
Aspire Park Running Trail, Doha, Qatar

Olive tree (Olea europaea) in Aspire Park at morning. Doha, Qatar, October 22, 2015

Olive tree (Olea europaea) planted in Aspire Park. Doha, Qatar, April 21, 2016
Aspire Park Running Trail, Doha, Qatar

Olive tree (Olea europaea) in Aspire Park. Doha, Qatar, April 21, 2016
Aspire Park Running Trail, Doha, Qatar

Olive tree (Olea europaea) at morning in Aspire Park. Doha, Qatar, April 21, 2016
Sand Trail, Doha, Qatar

Links

• Flora of Qatar.
• Unknown plants or plants without names.
• Duplicate and extra pictures of plants.
• Earlier version of collection of plants.
• Other collections of pictures from Qatar: Lizards of Qatar, Cats of Qatar, Camels of Qatar, and Fish of Qatar.
• Picture archives.
• Home page of A. Sergeev.

Outside links

• Olea europaea, Wikipedia article
• Olea europaea from www.catalogueoflife.org
• Ekhlas M. M. Abdel Bary, The Flora of Qatar, Volume I: The Dicotyledons. Doha 2012
• Flora of Qatar, Volume II: The Monocotyledons
• Illustrated Checklist of the Flora of Qatar. John Norton et al. 2009
• Qatar eNature. Flora
• Ali Al-Rawi, Flowering plants of Kuwait, 1985
• Plants of Kuwait
• Flora of Saudi Arabia, Al-Qassim Region
• Flora of Eastern Saudi Arabia by Rain and Dust at Flickr
• Plants of South-Western Morocco
• Pictures from Qatar (Flickr/cpmkutty)
• Arabian plants by Gary Brown
• Flora of Israel

How the web page was created

• A list of plants with their common names was written using online sources and books.
• Web pages were written by a program consisting of several scripts.
• Full names, synonyms, and classification of plants were found online from catalogueoflife.org and theplantlist.org using a script.
• Pictures of plants were selected from a database using a script.
• This web page was written using a script.

Acknowledgements

QNHG (Qatar Natural History Group) and associated people, for a possibility to participate in their field excursions and to learn about local nature.