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Olive Fruit Plant is Botanically known as Olea europaea from the family Oleaceae. It is medium size fruit plant best suitable for the Mediterranean climate. The olive's fruit, also called an "olive", is of major agricultural importance in the Mediterranean region as the source of olive oil, it is one of the core ingredients in the Mediterranean region. The Olive tree is evergreen and can attain the height of 5-8 meters, sometimes it can also grow as a shrub in the garden. The silvery green leaves are oblong and the trunk is typically gnarled and twisted. The fruit is a small drupe long when ripe, thinner-fleshed, and smaller in wild plants than in orchard cultivars. Olives are harvested in the green to purple stage.