Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
You may wish to plant 2-3 seeds per location, removing all but the strongest sapling once plants initiate growth in spring. Select a planting site with full sun and well-draining soil.
It is an evergreen shrub or small tree growing to 2–8 m (7–26 ft) tall. The bark is brown to grey or blackish, cracking into small plates on old plants. The leaves are opposite, 3–7 cm long and 1.5–4 cm broad with a thick, leathery texture, lustrous dark green above, paler yellow-green below; the margin is entire or with one to four large spine-tipped teeth on each side.
The larvae feed on a wide range of plants, including Zea mays, Livistona humilis, Helianthus annuus, Durio zibethinus, Carica papaya, Ricinus communis, Planchonia careya, Sorghum bicolor, Macadamia integrifolia, Prunus persica, Citrus limon, Nephelium lappaceum, Solanum melongena, Brachychiton acerifolium and Elettaria cardamomum.
Osmanthus fragrans (lit. ' fragrant osmanthus '), variously known as sweet osmanthus, sweet olive, tea olive, and fragrant olive, is a flowering plant species native to Asia from the Himalayas through the provinces of Guizhou, Sichuan and Yunnan in China, Taiwan, southern Japan and Southeast Asia as far south as Cambodia and Thailand.
Grevillea olivacea, commonly known as olive grevillea, [2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Proteaceae and is endemic to the west coast of Western Australia. It is a dense, erect shrub with elliptic to egg-shaped leaves, and erect clusters of bright red and orange or yellow flowers with a red to yellow style .
The plants begin to flower and fruit from 3 years old. The highly aromatic flowers , produced in clusters of one to three, are 1 cm long with a four-lobed creamy yellow calyx; they appear in early summer and are followed by clusters of fruit , a small cherry-like drupe 1–1.7 cm ( 3 ⁄ 8 – 5 ⁄ 8 in) long, orange-red covered in silvery scales.
Notelaea ligustrina, known as the privet mock olive, native olive, doral or silkwood, is a plant in the olive family, found in southeastern Australia. It is known to grow in and near rainforests south of Monga National Park in New South Wales , and into Victoria and the island state of Tasmania . [ 3 ]
Spilocaea oleaginea is a deuteromycete fungal plant pathogen, the cause of the disease olive peacock spot, also known as olive leaf spot and bird's eye spot. This plant disease commonly affects the leaves of olive trees worldwide. The disease affects trees throughout the growing season and can cause significant losses in yield.