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Introduction

Planting

Growing

Cultivars

Cultivar: Maurino (origin - Tuscany, Italy)

 

At this point, Maurino can not be recommended.  While it is rugged, well growing, and would serve very well as a low growing bushy spreading sort of olive tree, the problem is in the fruiting.  Each year for the past three years it has had a major problem with shotberries.  If you want an olive tree for the look, and don’t want the fruit, choose a fruit-less cultivar, say Swan Hill.  If you want an olive tree for the fruit, why choose one that produces scads of small imperfect fruit?  Even in California, some cultivars are noted for having more shotberries (e.g. Sevillano); it appears to me that Maurino should be so noted when growing in our corner of Oregon.  The tree pictured was one of the worst, most of the trees are not this bad (the fruit at the bottom center is a normal Maurino fruit).  We are not quite to the point of ripping out trees (of this or any other cultivar!); we are letting the situation age for a few more years.  Reken Estate: 10/31/07

Shotberries are almost certainly an indication of pollination problems, and may well be an indication of weather problems during the pollination period.  Since our trees are so young, and should have had the blossoms stripped off anyway (being too young to be allowed to fruit, let alone that mistaken impressions might be formed!), it is hoped that the situation will resolve itself favorably, and we can recommend Maurino at some future time.  One clue: in out plant nursery area, where there are many varieties and lots of plants very close together, shotberries on Maurino don’t seem to be nearly the problem they are on the field planted trees.

 

A nice tree; it tends to be bushy when very young, but this one is reaching for the sky.  Reken Estate: 01/15/09