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Phillyrea latifolia, commonly known as green olive tree or mock privet, is a species of tree in the family Oleaceae. [3] It is native to the Mediterranean Basin , from Morocco and Portugal in the west, to the Levant in the east.
Phillyrea is a genus of two species of flowering plants in the family Oleaceae, native to the Mediterranean region, and naturalized in the Canary Islands and Madeira. [ 2 ] They are evergreen shrubs or small trees growing to 3–9 m tall, related to Ligustrum , Olea and Osmanthus .
Pruning is a horticultural, arboricultural, and silvicultural practice involving the selective removal of certain parts of a plant, such as branches, buds, or roots. The practice entails the targeted removal of diseased , damaged, dead, non-productive, structurally unsound, or otherwise unwanted plant material from crop and landscape plants .
The larvae feed on Olea europaea, Phillyrea angustifolia and Phillyrea latifolia. They mine the leaves of their host plant. [2] References
Sclerophyll woodland in Tuscany, Italy. The type of sclerophyllic trees in the Palearctic flora region include the holm oak (Quercus ilex), myrtle (Myrtus communis), strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo), wild olive (Olea europaea), laurel (Laurus nobilis), mock privet (Phillyrea latifolia), the Italian buckthorn (Rhamnus alaternus), etc. [4]
Phillyrea angustifolia, the narrow-leaved mock privet, [1] is a species of flowering plant in the olive family Oleaceae, native to the western and central Mediterranean. [2] It is an evergreen shrub with simple, entire, leathery, dark green, oppositely arranged leaves. Scented creamy-white flowers are borne at the leaf axils in spring and ...
The species epithet was originally published erroneously as "philliraeoides", but this is a correctable error, because it refers to the genus Phillyrea. References [ edit ]
This was accepted as late as 1921, when Carl Ostenfeld published a further variety under Simsia, Simsia latifolia var. gracilis. In 1923, however, Karel Domin published a new species under Stirlingia as Stirlingia seselifolia. [3] In 1995, Alex George published a thorough treatment of the Stirlingia for the Flora of Australia series of monographs.