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Olives Olea

Every rated Olea record is keep-away — 1 of 2 records; none is rated fire-resistant. These counts describe the cited records — 2 records carrying 149 evidence rows from 30 cited sources; they do not make one verdict for the genus.

Keep away

1 species

Olive Keep away Olea europaea Consensus · 148 sources Zones 8–8

Awaiting evidence

1 species

Olea europaea var. oleaster Awaiting evidence Olea europaea var. oleaster Limited evidence · 1 source

About olives

Corpus context. Olea is the directory's #488 largest of 550 genus groups: 2 records carrying 149 evidence rows from 30 cited sources, recorded as tree , hardy across USDA zones 8–8. Those are corpus facts, not a whole-genus flammability claim.

More about Olea: Wikipedia — external references; not evidence sources.

Where rated olives grow

Tagged as growing in 9 states.

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