3: 17 For though the fig tree doesn ’ t flourish, nor fruit be in the vines ; the labor of the olive fails, the fields yield no food ; the flocks are cut off from the fold, and there is no herd in the stalls: 3: 18 yet I will rejoice in Yahweh.

Common trees on the island include the chestnut, cypress, oak, olive tree, pine, plane, and tamarisk.

Well-known or economically important members of this order include lavender, lilac, olive, jasmine, the ash tree, teak, snapdragon, sesame, psyllium, garden sage, and a number of table herbs such as mint, basil, and rosemary.

The northern portion of the state is home to many tree species such as ponderosa pine, aspen, cottonwood, spruce, fir, and Russian olive, which is an invasive species.

She is hesitant, but accepts him when he mentions that their bed was made from an olive tree still rooted to the ground.

Olive oil is a fat obtained from the olive ( the fruit of Olea europaea ; family Oleaceae ), a traditional tree crop of the Mediterranean Basin.

The olive tree is native to the Mediterranean basin ; wild olives were collected by Neolithic peoples as early as the 8th millennium BC.

The wild olive tree originated in Asia Minor in ancient Greece.

The olive ( or, Olea europaea, meaning " Oil from / of Europe ") is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, native to the coastal areas of the eastern Mediterranean Basin ( the adjoining coastal areas of southeastern Europe, western Asia and northern Africa ) as well as northern Iraq, and northern Iran at the south end of the Caspian Sea.

The olive tree, Olea europaea, is an evergreen tree or shrub native to the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa.

In Homer's Odyssey, Odysseus crawls beneath two shoots of olive that grow from a single stock, and in the Iliad, ( XVII. 53ff ) is a metaphoric description of a lone olive tree in the mountains, by a spring ; the Greeks observed that the olive rarely thrives at a distance from the sea, which in Greece invariably means up mountain slopes.

Though, according to the 4th-century BC father of botany, Theophrastus, olive trees ordinarily attained an age of about 200 years, he mentions that the very olive tree of Athena still grew on the Acropolis ; it was still to be seen there in the 2nd century AD ; and when Pausanias was shown it, ca 170 AD, he reported " Legend also says that when the Persians fired Athens the olive was burnt down, but on the very day it was burnt it grew again to the height of two cubits.

" Indeed, olive suckers sprout readily from the stump, and the great age of some existing olive trees shows that it was perfectly possible that the olive tree of the Acropolis dated to the Bronze Age.

According to Pliny the Elder a vine, a fig and an olive tree grew in the middle of the Roman Forum, the latter was planted to provide shade ( the garden plot was recreated in the 20th century ).

The leafy branches of the olive tree – the olive branch as a symbol of abundance, glory and peace – were used to crown the victors of friendly games and bloody wars.

The olive tree and olives are mentioned over 30 times in the Bible, in both the New and Old Testaments.

The olive tree itself, as well as olive oil and olives, play an important role in the Bible.

The olive tree, Olea europaea, is very hardy: drought -, disease-and fire-resistant, it can live to a great age.

There are thousands of cultivars of the Olea europaea olive tree.

The olive ( Olea europaea ) is important for its fruit and the oil extracted from it, the ashes ( Fraxinus ) are valued for tough wood, and forsythia, lilacs, jasmines, osmanthuses, privets, and fringetrees are valued as ornamental plants in gardens and landscaping.

* Olea – olive

Other plants that could be found in or around dry rainforests include: Native Rosella ( Hibiscus heterophyllus ), gorge mock-olive ( Notelaea microcarpa ), Brachychiton discolor ( lacebark ), Moreton Bay fig ( Ficus macrophylla ), native olive ( Olea paniculata ), red kamala ( Mallotus philippensis ), scentless rosewood ( Synoum glandulosum ) and shatterwood ( Backhousia sciadophora ).

* Trees: such as pine ( Pinus ), birch ( Betula ), alder ( Alnus ), cedar, hazel, hornbeam ( Carpinus ), horse chestnut ( Aesculus ), willow ( Salix ), poplar, plane ( Platanus ), linden / lime ( Tilia ) and olive ( Olea ).

* Olea spp., Various olive trees

* Manzanillo ( olive ) ( Olea europaea ' Manzanillo ', also known as the " olive of Seville ") the most common variety of Spanish olive, a medium-sized green to purple-black olive cultivar grown especially in and around Seville, Andalusia ; also, the Manzanillo olive tree as a whole, rather than just its fruit ; often misspelled Manzanilla

Its common name comes from its similarity in appearance to the olive ( Olea europaea ), in a different botanical family, Oleaceae.

Prominent examples are many of the species of maquis and other submediterranean dry ecosystems ( such as thyme, Thymus vulgaris, and rosemary, Rosmarinus officinalis ), the different heather species ( e. g. Calluna vulgaris and Erica species ), African wild olive ( Olea europaea ssp.

It is most commonly known as oleander, from its superficial resemblance to the unrelated olive Olea, but has many other names.

Endemic and rare species includes Saharan Cypress (“ tarout ”) ( Cupressus dupreziana ), wild olive ( Olea lapperrini ) and Saharan Myrtle ( Myrtus nivellei ), all of which are relict Saharan-Mediterranean species.

The olive fruit fly ( B. oleae ), for example, feeds on only one plant: the wild or commercially cultivated olive, Olea europaea.

This moth has been introduced to the eastern United States and is common near many towns ; it is about 12 cm across, with angulated wings, and in colour olive brown, with white markings.

It is not clear when and where olive trees were first domesticated: in Asia Minor in the 6th millennium ; Greece has by far the largest per capita consumption of olive oil worldwide, over 26 liters per person per year ; Spain and Italy, around 14 l ; Tunisia, Portugal, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, around 8 l. Northern Europe and North America consume far less, around 0. 7 l, but the consumption of olive oil outside its home territory has been rising steadily.

Over the years, the olive has been the symbol of peace, wisdom, glory, fertility, power and purity.

Many olive trees in the groves around the Mediterranean are said to be hundreds of years old, while an age of 2, 000 years is claimed for a number of individual trees ; in some cases, this has been scientifically verified.

The age of an olive tree in Crete, claimed to be over 2, 000 years old, has been confirmed on the basis of tree ring analysis.

An olive tree on the island of Brijuni ( Brioni ), Istria in Croatia, has been calculated to be about 1, 600 years old.

Ancient trees include two giant olive trees in Arraba and five trees in Deir Hanna, both in the Galilee region, which have been determined to be over 3, 000 years old, although the credibility of the study that produced these dates has been questioned.

This small olive, though difficult to cultivate, has a high yield of olive oil of exceptional quality.

The olive is medium sized, round, has a fruity flavour and is used almost exclusively for oil production.

It has a strong but sweet flavour, and is widely used in Spain as a table olive.

This frog has smooth slippery skin which is multicolored on its back with blotches of olive gray or brown.

Around the year 390 a wealthy Roman woman named Poimenia financed construction of the original church called " Eleona Basilica " ( elaion in Greek means " olive garden ", from elaia " olive tree ," and has an oft-mentioned similarity to eleos meaning " mercy ").

From the eagle's perspective, it holds a bundle of 13 arrows in its left talon, ( referring to the 13 original states ), and an olive branch in its right talon, together symbolizing that the United States of America has " a strong desire for peace, but will always be ready for war.

The eagle has its head turned towards the olive branch, said to symbolize a preference for peace.