White olives known as leucocarpa, or leucolea, is a rare variety of olive tree, mainly found in the south of Italy, or "Magna ...

Historians believe the olive tree originated in the Middle East and was spread from Syria to Greece via Anatolia. The plant ...

Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo ... This jar shows people harvesting olives. The olive is a very valuable tree in Greece. People ate the fruit, but also crushed olives ...

Winners at the Ancient Greek Olympic games were crowned with ... became the patron of the region of Attica after planting an olive tree there as a symbol of peace and prosperity.

It is made from the Olympia and Koroneiki tree variety and is ... mountains near the site of Ancient Olympia, Greece. This limited, family production olive oil comes with direct customer service ...

His belief that the gods must be good or otherwise not be gods ran contrary to almost all Greek mythology ... (Hercules), who brought a sacred olive tree to Olympia, an alternative myth has ...

Spread by insects, the bacterium now poses a potential threat to olive plantations in Spain and Greece. The disease could ... The infection limits the tree's ability to move water and nutrients ...