The ecoregion has forests of Turkish Pine ( Pinus brutia ), oak forests and woodlands, and maquis shrubland of Turkish Pine and evergreen sclerophyllous trees and shrubs, including Olive ( Olea europaea ), Strawberry Tree ( Arbutus unedo ), Arbutus andrachne, Kermes Oak ( Quercus coccifera ), and Bay Laurel ( Laurus nobilis ).

For the 1996 national elections, the center-left parties created the Olive Tree coalition while the center-right united again under the House of Freedoms.

In April 1996, national elections led to the victory of a center-left coalition, Olive Tree, under the leadership of Romano Prodi.

The Allegory of the Olive Tree in St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans ( which reappears in greatly expanded form in the Book of Jacob in the Book of Mormon ) refers to the scattering and gathering of Israel.

An olive tree in west Athens, named " Plato's Olive Tree ", was said to be a remnant of the grove within which Plato's Academy was situated, which would make it approximately 2, 400 years old.

Chapter 5 contains The Parable of the Olive Tree, a lengthy allegory of the scattering and gathering of Israel, comparing the Israelites and gentiles to tame and wild olive trees, respectively.

* April 21 – A general election in Italy proclaims a new government headed by Romano Prodi and his Olive Tree coalition, replacing Silvio Berlusconi.

A split from the PPI, the United Christian Democrats ( CDU ), joined Forza Italia and the CCD in the centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition ( later becoming the Pole for Freedoms ), while the PPI was a founding member of The Olive Tree centre-left coalition in 1996.

* In Italy, The Olive Tree and The Union coalitions comprised the Federation of the Greens along with a heterogenous mix of social-democratic, socialist, centrist and other parties in a broad centre-left alliance.

Although the region has a center-right local government, at the April 2006 elections, Molise gave 50. 5 % of its votes to Romano Prodi of the centre-to-left Olive Tree party.

Black Olive Berry on a Soft Tree Fern at Devil's Creek, South East Forest NP

It led to the designation of Romano Prodi as leader of the Olive Tree coalition, which gathered several center and left-wing parties, for the legislative elections of the 9th and 10th April 2006.

As a defensive move, the other coalition, Olive Tree, felt obliged to do the same, under the name Paese Nuovo.

It sought to undermine the proportionality rules of the Italian Additional Member System of elections by running many of its constituency candidates under a decoy list called Abolizione Scorporo, a title which explicitly stated its opposition to the counting rules ; its tactic largely worked because it had more support than the centre-left United in the Olive Tree alliance.

In 2003 House of Freedoms was routed in local elections by the Olive Tree alliance, and the League threatened to pull out of the House of Freedoms.

Friedman first discussed his views on globalization in the 2000 book The Lexus and the Olive Tree.

While Friedman is an advocate of globalization, he also points out ( in The Lexus and the Olive Tree ) the need for a country to preserve its local traditions, a process he termed ' glocalization ', although the term was already in use by most social anthropology theorists.

* The Lexus and the Olive Tree: Understanding Globalization ( 1999 ; revised edition 2000 )

As a defensive move, the other coalition, Olive Tree, felt obliged to do the same, under the name Paese Nuovo.

Prodi ran in 1996 as lead candidate of The Olive Tree coalition, winning the general election and serving as Prime Minister of Italy until 1998.

The Olive Tree ( political coalition ) | Olive Tree logo.

In 1995, Prodi was one of the founders of the centre-left coalition The Olive Tree, and as its main leader he defeated the Silvio Berlusconi-led centre-right Pole of Freedoms coalition in the 1996 Italian general election.

* Olive Gibbs 1964 – 1967

Sharp also worked in America, recording the traditional songs of the Appalachian Mountains in 1916 – 1918 in collaboration with Maud Karpeles and Olive Dame Campbell and is considered the first major scholar covering American folk music.

* 1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.

* 1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.

* 1920 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian ( d. 2011 )

* 1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer ( d. 1920 )

* 1986 – Olive Deering, American actress ( b. 1918 )

* 1894 – Olive Tell, American actress ( d. 1951 )

Sylvia Olive Pleadwell Sayer, Lady Sayer ( 1904 – 2000 ) was one of the foremost early conservators of what is now Dartmoor National Park, in Devon in the south-west of England.

* September 10 – Olive Thomas, American actress ( b. 1894 )

* December 11 – Olive Schreiner, South African writer ( b. 1855 )

* July 5 – American Revolution: The Continental Congress sends the Olive Branch Petition, hoping for a reconciliation.

* August 23 – American Revolution: Refusing to even look at the Olive Branch Petition, King George issues a Proclamation of Rebellion against the American colonies.

William Allingham – Henry C. Beeching – Oliver Madox Brown – Olive Custance – John Davidson – Austin Dobson – Lord Alfred Douglas – Evelyn Douglas – Edward Dowden – Ernest Dowson – Michael Field – Norman Gale – Edmund Gosse – John Gray – William Ernest Henley – Gerard Manley Hopkins – Herbert P. Horne – Lionel Johnson – Andrew Lang – Eugene Lee-Hamilton – Maurice Hewlett – Edward Cracroft Lefroy – Arran and Isla Leigh – Amy Levy – John William Mackail – Digby Mackworth Dolben – Fiona MacLeod – Frank T. Marzials – Théophile Julius Henry Marzials – George Meredith – Alice Meynell – Cosmo Monkhouse – George Moore – William Morris – Frederick W. H. Myers – Roden Noël – John Payne – Victor Plarr – A. Mary F. Robinson – William Caldwell Roscoe – Christina Rossetti – Dante Gabriel Rossetti – Algernon Charles Swinburne – John Addington Symonds – Arthur Symons – Rachel Annand Taylor – Francis Thompson – John Todhunter – Herbert Trench – John Leicester Warren, Lord de Tabley – Rosamund Marriott Watson – Theodore Watts-Dunton – Oscar Wilde – Margaret L. Woods – Theodore Wratislaw – W. B. Yeats

Hajj and Omar encounter each other and engage in a battle of wits (" The Olive Tree ").

* Ailanthus altissima ( Tree of Heaven ) – northern and central mainland China, Taiwan, arguably the best known species.

* ICT – ( Ivy Covered Tree ) used in the description on where a cache may be hidden.

* Trysting Tree – several references are made to these trees as agreed gathering places.

** Lavatera – Tree mallow or rose mallow

* 1963 – Gavin Harrison, English musician ( Porcupine Tree, King Crimson, and OSI )

* Montgomery, William G. ( 1993 ) Under Their Own Vine and Fig Tree: The African-American Church in the South, 1865 – 1900, Louisiana State University Press, ISBN 0-8071-1745-5

* 1967 – Steven Wilson, English musician ( Porcupine Tree )

* In Robert Jordan ' Wheel of Time the Tree of Life – " Avendesora " – as the last of its kind plays a pivotal role.

* In Michael Chabon's 2002 novel Summerland, the four great limbs of the Lodgepole – also known as the " Tree of Worlds " and the " Ash o ' Ashes " – hold up the four Worlds of the Summerlands, the Winterlands, the Middling, and the Gleaming.

Wish Tree, her installation in the Sculpture Garden – Museum of Modern Art, New York ( since July 2010 ), has become very popular with contributions from all over the world.

* July 2 – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, British actor ( b. 1852 )

* February 13 – Dorothy Tree, American actress ( b. 1906 )

* March 9 – The Irish rock band U2 releases their studio album The Joshua Tree.

Tree lace and cup lump together account for 10 – 20 % of the dry rubber produced.

* Rhododendron arboreum – Tree Rhododendron

In 2009, Bacon narrated a National Geographic Channel show ' The Human Family Tree ' – a program charting the work of the Genographic Project and their work on the genetic interconnectedness of all humans.

* Edith Pargeter ( 1960 – 63 ) " The Heaven Tree Trilogy " features Llywelyn, Joan, William de Braose, and several of Llywelyn's sons as major characters.

* Tabebuia aurea – Caribbean Trumpet Tree

* Tabebuia chrysotricha – Golden Trumpet Tree

* Tabebuia donnell-smithii – Gold Tree, " Prima Vera ", Cortez blanco ( El Salvador ), San Juan ( Honduras ), palo blanco ( Guatemala ), duranga ( Mexico )

* Ficus septica – Hauli Tree in Philippines

* Curtain Fig Tree – a F. virens