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10+ Fruitless Olive Tree Varieties
Images. Mature olive trees often develop contorted, massive trunks. It's easy to look at the vast selection of olives available in your gourmet grocery store and imagine that you can grow any and all of these varieties.
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I found this wilsonii olive tree at my local garden center. Olive trees, fruiting and fruitless, descended from mediterranean olives (olea europaea). Fruitless olive varieties have the additional advantage of producing less pollen than fruiting varieties.
The wilsonii variety of fruitless olive was discovered in a manzanillo olive grove.
If you plan to use olive trees as part of your landscaping, you'll probably want a fruitless variety, such as majestic beauty, swan hill or wilsonii. Olives are evergreen trees reaching anywhere from 20 to 50 feet in height at maturity, though there are also dwarf varieties that stay only six to eight feet tall. That means hardwood cuttings are the preferred. Most olive varieties produce a heavy crop every other year and this helps to even out the fruit production.
