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Introduction

Planting

Growing

Cultivars

Cultivar: Mission Leiva (origin - Columbia)

 

Information from the ARS-GRIN database:

 

“DNA match with DOLE 8 (Mostazal), DOLE 86 (Yuaca), DOLE119 (Azapa).

 

Susceptible to olive knot.”

 

Mission Leiva was one of the cultivars more affected by the winter, two of the trees below in the photo were killed by winter cold, and the rest badly set back.

 

06/11/09:

The three that made it through the summer are all growing strong.

 

10/03/09:

Two trees did good coming through the 2010 winter; the one on the left lost one of its two major branches.

 

06/05/10:

Good strong growth this summer; looks like it might have a very spreading tree form.

 

10/16/10: