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Cultivar: Salome (origin - Australia)
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 from the USDA Plant Introduction Garden, Chico. Imported from Adelaide, South Australia in 1920. The tree is moderate in size, with a spreading top and narrow leaves. It bears fairly heavy crops in most years. The fruit is borne singly, often in twos on short peduncles. It matures in November. The ripe fruit is reddish-black with a prominent bloom. It has a true straw-color stage, at which time it is a light yellowish-green. The color change begins at the apex, attaining a red shade with prominent yellowish-green lenticels; these almost disappear at final maturity. The shape of the olive resembles that of an oval Mission - erect, slightly depressed at two of the sides, with prominent ridges on each of the other sides. The base is usually broad, rounded, often slanted; the apex is round; the stem-end cavity is prominent. The pit is medium in size and uniform in shape - erect, much shorter than that of a plump Mission, which it resembles somewhat, except that it is prominently depressed at two opposite sides. It is broad, being widest at the center. The base is rounded, rarely square or narrow; the apex tapers slightly, is fairly broad and rather flat on the two sides toward the end, terminating in a very short, thick point. The surface is crossed longitudinally with numerous long, well-branched, fairly smooth furrows; these are, however, more prominent at the sides paralleling the main ones that form the halves of the endocarp and extend over the whole surface of the apex-half. In the center of the base-half there is usually a smooth zone running longitudinally. This variety has fruit too small for commercial pickling in California. It may be of some value, however, as an oil variety.”
Well, no olives yet, but these one year old trees came through the December 2008 storms just fine!
06/11/09: |
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The two that are still alive are growing moderately well.
10/03/09: |
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Not much changed through the winter.
06/05/10: |
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Like almost everything in our 2 gallon tree pots, Salome had strong summer growth this year.
10/16/10: |