Sunday 3 January 2016

What to Look for an Olive?

Olive

An olive is a fruit like cherry or plum.The olive tree is native to Asia,Africa and Mediterranean.The Tree is evergreen and has height 10-15 m,The leaves are silvery green,size 4-10cm long and 1-3cm width.The fruit is small and bitter taste thiner fleshed difficult to eat when unripe.
Olives are classified as a fruit because they are produce from the ovary of olive flower.The seed are called pit or rock or stone,because they are very hard.Olive can be picked when they are green and unripe,and left for ripening on the tree the color change green to purplish-black when ripe.The use of fruit as raw is about 10% and 90% is used for extraction of oil.

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