Oregon Olive Trees™

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Introduction

Planting

Growing

Cultivars

Cultivar: Ageezy Shami (origin - Egypt)

 

Ageezy Shami is known internationally now-a-days as Aggezi Shami. 

 

Information from the ARS-GRIN database:

 

“Information on this variety from Bulletin 720, Olive Varieties in California, by Hartman and Papaioannou, California Agricultural Experiment Station, University of California, Berkeley, February 1951: Collected at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside. Imported from Giza, Egypt, in 1940, by Professor W. V. Cruess. Experimental grafts of this variety have since been made in the major olive sections of California. The tree has borne good crops consistently at Riverside and Lindsay. The fruit is grown singly, often in twos or threes, on short to medium-sized peduncles. At maturity in October it is reddish-black. The fruits color evenly. The shape of the olive is round or oval, strongly protruding at one side, with a typical, pointed projection at the apex. The base is variably slanted or rounded; stem-end cavity is small and shallow. The pit is of medium size, irregular, oblong, erect, protruding at one side. The base is variable - conical, narrow, or rounded; the apex is rounded, ending in a very long, thin, sharp point. This point is easily broken and can be observed only if the pit is carefully removed from the olive. The surface is crossed lengthwise by numerous branched, deep furrows - more prominent at the base-half and toward the sides. The two furrows forming the endocarp are not prominent. Occasional cavities can be found. This variety can be pickled satisfactorily by the Spanish-green process. Cruess has shown this variety to ferment and soften during ripe pickling, but with care, a firm, ripe-pickled fruit was obtained.”

 

 

Our one tree was set back by the December 2008 storms, such that it is smaller than it was a year ago.

 

10/03/09:

This past winter with lows down to 10 F seem not to have affected it much at all.

 

06/05/10:

Our summer has been cool, but almost all olive tree cultivars have been growing very well.  Although olive trees probably evolved in a very hot place, they do seem to adapt well to our summers.

 

10/16/10: