Few living organisms on Earth have witnessed as much history as the olive tree. Across Greece and the Mediterranean, ancient olive trees have survived wars, invasions, earthquakes, droughts, wildfires ...

A landscape design company successfully completed the complex task of relocating a precious 500-year-old olive tree weighing ...

The blossoms that decorate the branches of the tea olive tree ( Osmanthus fragrans are tiny but deeply fragrant. The biggest bloom happens in the spring and summer, but it also blooms intermittently ...

From fruity olive oil to dirty (or filthy) martinis, you've got olive trees to thank. While their natural habitat is found dotting the sun-soaked Mediterranean region, where twisted, ancient specimens ...

Olive trees are some of the most important woody crops in the world, and Verticillium wilt, caused by the Verticillium dahliae fungus, is the most concerning disease for farmers in the olive sector.

The U.S. ambassador joined bereaved families at a northern Israeli olive grove where supporters around the world plant roots in Israel by adopting trees.

A new study has unraveled the earliest evidence for domestication of a fruit tree, researchers report. The researchers analyzed remnants of charcoal from the Chalcolithic site of Tel Zaf in the Jordan ...

At the edge of rugged Montenegrin foothills, a years-long effort to save one of the country's oldest olive trees, which ...

It’s a sight that’s been greeting travelers for thousands of years. On the Montsià plains of southern Catalonia, about a two-hour drive south of Barcelona, lies the Mar de Olivas, or Sea of Olives.