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About hundred-years-old Olive Trees in Spain
Information about the Olive Tree ▪ The Olive Tree market
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This «Blog» is dedicated to let a bit better know the Olive Tree, more especially the Empeltre, a Spanish variety, slightly or less known and one of the hardiest.
You will also find the main information about the different Olive trees varieties coming across Spain; as well as generally speaking information about the Olive Tree, a fruit tree that on the contrary people might think is not a single variety, but consist of hundreds of varieties which were developed with the passing time and lands he conquered.
Spain is most probably the country that counts the widest varieties and sub-varieties diversity of the Olive tree, but
unfortunately also a country where the information circulates badly and isn’t shared too much.
The obsolete administrative structures, gap of references, and collaboration lack didn’t really made the redaction of those few pages easy, which willed the more complete as can be without
entering the detail of Olive tree culture.
It is certainly neither an encyclopedia, nor a piece of advice collection about its cultivation or Olive production; therefore, we deeply suggest you to refer to your nursery.
Tree from the sun, some varieties lend anyway to colder climes and harshest winters; it is to one of those one, the Empeltre or Spanish Aragonite, we dedicate more in particular this «Blog».
The present «Blog» do not mention any commercial information
If you need to get inquiries in that way, we suggest you to contact
If you want to know or to discover more varieties, we suggest you to consult the page dedicated to the Olive trees by the French website
«Arbre-Fruitier.com» clicking on the following link, it shall inform you usefully about the Old and
common Olive trees still marketed in Europe .
(To translate this page to English you can use the “Systran”
translator; see Menu on the left side)
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