Olea europaeaL.

Olive

WFO wfo-0000817273 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h

Olea europaea, photographed by Rosalie Lawrence
fig. a Rosalie Lawrence, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-29 / obs. 191544406
Olea europaea, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. b Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195451977
Olea europaea, photographed by Millie Basden
fig. c Millie Basden, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 191415274
Olea europaea, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. d Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 195733156
Olea europaea, photographed by Duarte Frade
fig. e Duarte Frade, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 190154570
Olea europaea, photographed by Felicity Kreger
fig. f Felicity Kreger, CC0 1.0 / obs. 189657125
Olea europaea, photographed by Bob Walker
fig. g Bob Walker, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 197102854
Olea europaea, photographed by Paulo Martins
fig. h Paulo Martins, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 184636232

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Flowering n = 274 observations

Peak flowering in May, from 274 community-annotated observations worldwide. This is a global aggregate, not a forecast for your garden: the same species flowers on different dates in different hemispheres, and citizen-science records cluster near cities, at weekends, and in spring. Where a species has fewer than 30 annotated records we do not draw this chart at all.

Also published as 137 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Linociera lebrunii Staner
  • Olea africana Mill.
  • Olea alba Lam. ex Steud.
  • Olea amygdalina Gouan
  • Olea angulosa Gouan
  • Olea angustifolia Raf.
  • Olea argentata Clemente ex Steud.
  • Olea arolensis Clemente ex Steud.
  • Olea asiatica Desf.
  • Olea atrorubens Gouan
  • Olea aucheri A.Chev. ex Ehrend.
  • Olea bifera Raf.
  • Olea brevifolia Raf.
  • Olea buxifolia (Aiton) Steud.
  • Olea cajetana Petagna
  • Olea cayana Raf.
  • Olea cerasiformis Rivas Mart. & del Arco
  • Olea chrysophylla Lam.
  • Olea chrysophylla var. aucheri A.Chev.
  • Olea chrysophylla var. cuspidata (Wall. ex G.Don) A.Chev.
  • Olea chrysophylla var. ferruginea (Royle) A.Chev.
  • Olea chrysophylla var. maderensis (Lowe) A.Chev.
  • Olea chrysophylla var. nubica (Schweinf. ex Baker) A.Chev.
  • Olea chrysophylla var. somaliensis (Baker) A.Chev.

and 113 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice, no toxicity claim and no native range, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.