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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Olive

Olive (Olea europaea) is an annual small trees and evergreen, the young fruit can be eaten raw or preserved as a refresher after. The old fruit is squeezed and the oil is extracted into olive oil that can be used for various purposes. Olive is a member of the Oleaceae tribe.





Interest-melatian jasmine or Oleaceae tribe vegetation is composed of 24 genera and about 600 species of plants.



Some characteristics of Oleaceae tribe:



    
* Grow as shrubs or trees and have a bell-shaped flowers

    
* Single or pinnate leaves, sitting opposite or rocky, with no leverage leaf

    
* Flowers hermaphrodite or unisexual

    
* Ovaries ride

    
* Fruit fruit kendaga broken by splitting the space, sometimes in the form of fruit or fruit stone buni

    
* Beans usually have endosperm.