• Family : Oleaceae
  (Olive Or Jasmine Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : MOGRA FAMILY (मोगरा फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Oleaceae
• Synonym(s) : Linociera lebrunii Staner Olea africana Mill. Olea asiatica Desf. Olea aucheri A.Chev. ex Ehrend. Olea chrysophylla Lam. Olea cuspidata Wall. ex G.Don Olea europaea subsp. africana (Mill.) P.S.Green; Olea europaea f. dulcis Collen.; Olea ferruginea Royle; Olea indica Kleinhof ex Burm.f.; Olea kilimandscharica Knobl.; Olea monticola Gand.; Olea schimperi Gand.; Olea similis Burch.; Olea somaliensis Baker; Olea subtrinervata Chiov.; Olea verrucosa (Willd.) Link
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Olea europaea subsp. cuspidata (Wall. & G.Don) Cif.
• Common name : Brown Olive, Wild olive, Indian olive
• Vernacular name : Kahu, Kan, Kao, Bairbanj (Himachal); Julipe (Kannada)
• Habit : Tree
• Comments / notes : Brown Olive is an evergreen tree usually growing 2-10 m tall, but occasionally reaching up to 15 m in height.
• Key identification features : Flowering occurs mostly during spring. The distinctive ellipsoid fruits are green when immature and turn purplish-black in color as they mature. These fruit, 1.5-3 cm long and 0.6-2 cm wide, have a single stone in the centre surrounded by oily flesh.
• Distribution :
  • Himachal Pradesh : Kullu district
• Native : Afghanistan, Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cape Provinces, China South-Central, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Free State, Iran, Kenya, KwaZulu-Natal, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Northern Provinces, Oman, Pakistan, Rwanda, Réunion,
• Exotic/Native : Native
• Literature : Nair, N. G (1977).Flora of Bashahr Himalayas. International Bioscience Publishers: 180
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Navendu Page, Deepak Kumar (2020). Pan India Bouquets. http://flora-peninsula-indica.ces.iisc.ac.in/pan/plants.php?name=Olea europaea subsp cuspidata. Downloaded on 26 November 2022.

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