Evergreen olive willow
The evergreen olive willow ( Elaeagnus x ebbingei Boom ex Door. ), Evergreen olive willow or Ebbings-Ölweide is a cross between large-leaved olive willow ( Elaeagnus macrophylla ) and thorny olive willow ( Elaeagnus pungens ), which originated in 1929 in The Hague, the Netherlands.
description
The evergreen olive willow is a densely leafy, evergreen up to 3 m high shrub with glossy dark green leaves on top and silvery scaly underneath. The creamy white flowers smell intensely in autumn. After mild winters, they occasionally ripen into orange-green, elongated stone fruits in spring.
use
Because of its late blooming period, this type of olive provides valuable food for insects. The shrub is mostly cultivated in gardens as an evergreen, fragrant ornamental wood. Planting the evergreen olive oil between fruit trees should increase the fruit yield by 10%, as olive oil is able to absorb nitrogen from the air and convert it to ionic nitrogen.
sorts
As an ornamental wood with partly colored foliage, nurseries offer some varieties: 'Albert Doorenbos' - original seedling, 'Aurea' - leaf with an intense yellow spot, 'Coastal Gold' - gray-green leaves with a yellow spot in the middle, 'Gilt Edge' - narrow, yellow-edged leaves, 'Lemon Ice' - spot in the middle of the leaf creamy yellow to yellow-green, 'Limelight' - leaf with a broad, intense yellow spot in the middle, 'Salcombe Seedling', 'Southern Seedling', 'The Hague'
swell
- Andreas Bärtels: Encyclopedia of the garden trees . Ulmer, Stuttgart 2001, p. 261
- Jeanne Dericks-Tan, Gabriele Vollbrecht: On the trail of wild fruits in Europe . Abadi Verlag, Alzenau 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-021129-4 , p. 202
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