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Olea frantoio
Latin name:
Olea frantoio
Common name:
Olive
Keywords:
olive, frantoio
Italian cultivar and probabaly Italy's most popular olive.
Good cropper producing medium sized oval fruit nad good oil quality and quantity.
Handles most soil conditions but prefers free draining soils, needs adequate moisture.
Fertilise in Spring and Autumn with 200g of high nitrogen based fertiliser.
Self fertilising so no need for other tree to get fruit on.
Will get to 10m tall at maturity
N.B we only grow these in 25 litre easy lift bags and tree size will be approx 1.4-1.6m tall