Can anyone identify this tree ?

Mrs Zeb will know.

I'll ask her if you don't get a reply soon Grizz.

Dave

P.S. There are several varieties of olive - you sure it isn't one of them?

Hi both and thanks...sorry for late reply; my " notify of response" function has gone to pot.

This was the only one on site ( Camping Spartacus). I thought (think ?) it's an olive but the leaves seem a lot broader and firmer than the usual olive leaves - more like a rhododendron or laurel leaf.

I've run it through the Med plants key ( thanks for that - an excellent link ) with no luck but, as you say, my photo does not give enough information. I've also gone through Google images but can't find it. I thought I had a photo of the whole tree but seem to have only an orange and a lemon instead !

Somewhere in the back of my mind, I can remember a bit from Carol Drinkwater's books on olive related matters about a Roman olive that does not need curing before eating.

Come home Mrs Zeb....!!

G

Mrs Zeb thinks it might be a species of olive, but there isn't enough info from the photo. She would need to see the shape and structure of the tree/bush to have more idea.

And early May seems a bit soon for an olive to be turning colour and beginning to ripen.

Sorry (she says) - can't help any more.

Dave

Thanks Mrs Zeb...I feared as much.

I should have asked the nice man on Reception but he'd already given me a mass of delicious cherry tomatoes, a loaf of bread straight out of the pizza oven and several home grown lemons and I felt a bit embarrassed. My Italian is not good enough to say that all I want is information...

Did I say it was a really friendly and convenient site- ?

G