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Introduction

Planting

Growing

Cultivars

Cultivar: Azapa (origin - Chile)

 

Azapa is used in Chile for both green and black table olives; and is said to be easy to pit when processed with lye.  Clingstone.

 

Information from the ARS-GRIN database:

 

DNA match with DOLE 8 (Mostazal), DOLE 86 (Yuaca), and DOLE 129 (Mission Leiva).

 

“Low chilling requirement; late maturity. 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: Imported from Chile in 1950. This was a new variety (in 1951) grown in northern Chile. It is a table olive with fruits reported to be as large as the Sevillano.”

 

10/03/09:

They were fairly well damaged by the 2008 winter storms, it remains to be seen if the one on the left will survive at all.

 

One of these days I am going to have to try to get a better understanding of the DNA testing that is going on; compare this photo to the photo on the Mission Leiva page…

 

 

Only one survives, but there is little evidence of winter damage.

 

06/05/10:

Good re-growth this summer.

 

10/16/10: