Description
Olive (scientific name: Canarium album (Lour.) Raeusch.) Olive family olive tree plant. The height can reach 35 meters, and the diameter at breast height can reach 150 cm. There are 3-6 pairs of lobules, paper to leathery, 12-16 pairs of lateral veins, infructescence 1.5-15 cm long, with 1-6 fruits. Oval to fusiform, yellowish-green when mature, thick exocarp, hard core, pointed ends, coarse nuclear surface. Flowering period from April to May, fruit matures from October to December.
Olives are native to southern China, and are cultivated in Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Japan (Nagasaki, Okinawa) and Malay Peninsula and other regions. They are wildly grown in valleys and hillside forests below 1,300 meters above sea level, or cultivated In the garden and beside the village.
Olive is a good windbreak tree and street tree. Wood can be used for shipbuilding, sleepers, furniture, farm tools and construction materials. The fruit can be eaten raw or preserved, and used medicinally to treat laryngitis, hemoptysis, polydipsia, enteritis and diarrhea. Nuclear for carving, and medicinal, effective in treating fish bones and throat.
