Who grows Olive Olea europaea Mission wholesale in Australia?

4 wholesale growers list Olive Olea europaea Mission on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Victoria and Queensland. The growers are named on this page.

What pot sizes does Olive Olea europaea Mission come in?

Growers on HortOS list Olive Olea europaea Mission in 140mm, 200mm, 250mm, 70L and 90L.

How do I order Olive Olea europaea Mission from these growers?

HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.

Is Mission a table olive or an oil olive?

Both, by most of the papers the OleaDB germplasm database lists: twelve of the fourteen that record its purpose call it dual purpose. The University of California gives a medium fruit with 19 to 24 per cent oil and a high polyphenol content.

Does Mission need a pollinator?

Four papers in the OleaDB sheet record it as self-compatible. The University of California table still lists Sevillano and Ascolano as pollenizers, notes that most olives set a better crop with cross-pollination, and says Mission and Manzanillo are not compatible cross-pollenizers for each other.

Is Mission frost hardy?

The University of California table rates it hardy, where it rates Manzanillo and Frantoio sensitive to cold. The rating is Californian, and no Australian reference read grades the variety.

How big does a Mission olive tree grow?

No reference read gives a height, a spread or a vigour for the variety; one paper in the OleaDB sheet records erect branches. The olive page gives the species' size.

Olive Olea europaea Mission

4 growers · 5 sizes · from $6.95 ex GST

Mission (Olea europaea 'Mission') is the Californian olive: the OleaDB germplasm database marks it autochthonous to California and other parts of the United States and to Mexico, and nearly all the papers it lists record a dual-purpose variety, for the table and for oil. The University of California's cultivar table rates it hardy to cold, with a medium fruit, 19 to 24 per cent oil and a high polyphenol content. It is a variety of the olive, whose page carries the facts common to every form.

Illustration of olive (Olea europaea): a twig of the European olive with narrow leathery leaves in opposite pairs, grey-green above and silvery white beneath, and three oval olives on short stalks from the leaf axils, two green and one purple-black — Olive (Olea europaea), a fruiting twig

Type: Evergreen tree
Height: 5 m to 10 m
Spread: 4.6 m to 7.6 m
Growth: Slow
Flowers: Cream, spring to early summer
Sun: Full sun
Drought: Tolerant
In Australia: Naturalised

Size	Grower	Location	PricePrice ex GST
70L	The Advanced Tree Company70L	Mornington, VIC	$195.00
90L	The Advanced Tree Company90L	Mornington, VIC	$265.00
140mm	Yackandandah Valley Nursery140mm	Staghorn Flat, VIC	$6.95
200mm	Yackandandah Valley Nursery200mm	Staghorn Flat, VIC	$11.95
200mm	Meyer Nurseries200mm	Blind Bight, VIC	$10.00
250mm	Eumundi Roses250mm	Eumundi, QLD	$60.00

Growing mission

Climate. The University of California's table rates Mission hardy to cold, where it rates Manzanillo and Frantoio sensitive. That is a Californian rating; no Australian reference read grades the variety for frost. Papers in the OleaDB sheet record it in cultivation in Western Australia, Queensland and New South Wales, and name Loxton and Roseworthy.

Habit and cropping. The one paper that records its branches calls them erect; none records its vigour, and no reference read gives a height or a spread. All five papers that record its productivity give it as intermediate and alternate.

Pollination. Four papers in the OleaDB sheet record Mission as self-compatible. The Californian table lists Sevillano and Ascolano as its pollenizers, notes that most olive varieties set a better crop with cross-pollination, and says Mission and Manzanillo are not compatible cross-pollenizers for each other.

Everything else. Sun, soil, water and what the references say of the olive's pests are on the olive page.

Using mission

Mission is recorded as dual purpose, for the table and for oil, in twelve of the fourteen papers OleaDB lists for its purpose; one gives oil and one rootstock. The Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria's horticultural flora names it among the commercial cultivars. The University of California gives a medium fruit with 19 to 24 per cent oil and a high polyphenol content, and notes that oils high in polyphenols have a longer shelf life and are generally more bitter and pungent; the OleaDB sheet has the fruit elliptic and of medium to high weight. The other fruiting olives with pages are Manzanillo, Kalamata, Frantoio and Picual.

What to check before you buy

The table above shows the sizes growers list, and root and quality checks are in the nursery plant quality guide. For a crop, the Californian table's pollenizers for Mission are Sevillano and Ascolano, and not Manzanillo, though the papers OleaDB lists call the variety self-compatible. Its hardy rating in that table is what separates it from the cold-sensitive varieties, with the caution that the rating was made in California. Stock crossing a state border moves under the state and territory biosecurity rules, and the olive page carries the weed listings: in South Australia olive trees not maintained for harvesting must be controlled.

Olives are declared under the Landscape South Australia Act 2019: landholders must control olive trees that are not maintained for harvesting, and any seedlings. Weeds Australia lists the European olive, subsp. europaea, as a declared weed in South Australia and the African olive, subsp. cuspidata, as declared in New South Wales, South Australia and Western Australia. NSW WeedWise lists the African olive under the general biosecurity duty across New South Wales, with regional measures for the Central Tablelands, Greater Sydney, Hunter and North West under which it should not be bought, sold, moved, carried or released. (Landscape South Australia Act 2019 (Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board fact sheet, Government of South Australia); Weeds Australia weed profiles; NSW WeedWise (NSW Biosecurity Act 2015 and the Regional Strategic Weed Management Plans))

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Prices are set by each grower and shown ex GST. Availability is confirmed by the grower at order.

Common questions

Who grows Olive Olea europaea Mission wholesale in Australia?: 4 wholesale growers list Olive Olea europaea Mission on HortOS right now, each with their own pot sizes and trade prices. They are in Victoria and Queensland. The growers are named on this page.
What pot sizes does Olive Olea europaea Mission come in?: Growers on HortOS list Olive Olea europaea Mission in 140mm, 200mm, 250mm, 70L and 90L.
How do I order Olive Olea europaea Mission from these growers?: HortOS is for the trade. Add the lines you want to a list and send it: each grower gets their part of the order by email, confirms what they have and quotes freight, and nothing is bought until you approve it. Listing, searching and ordering are free.
Is Mission a table olive or an oil olive?: Both, by most of the papers the OleaDB germplasm database lists: twelve of the fourteen that record its purpose call it dual purpose. The University of California gives a medium fruit with 19 to 24 per cent oil and a high polyphenol content.
Does Mission need a pollinator?: Four papers in the OleaDB sheet record it as self-compatible. The University of California table still lists Sevillano and Ascolano as pollenizers, notes that most olives set a better crop with cross-pollination, and says Mission and Manzanillo are not compatible cross-pollenizers for each other.
Is Mission frost hardy?: The University of California table rates it hardy, where it rates Manzanillo and Frantoio sensitive to cold. The rating is Californian, and no Australian reference read grades the variety.
How big does a Mission olive tree grow?: No reference read gives a height, a spread or a vigour for the variety; one paper in the OleaDB sheet records erect branches. The olive page gives the species' size.

Sources

GBIF species match API (the species name and family)
PlantNET, the New South Wales flora online (Royal Botanic Garden Sydney): Olea europaea (the species' leaf and flower)
Weeds of Australia, Biosecurity Queensland edition (Queensland Government): Olea europaea (the species' foliage, leaf arrangement, flower and bark)
Weeds Australia (Centre for Invasive Species Solutions): weed profile, European Olive (the species' flower)
Eyre Peninsula Landscape Board (Government of South Australia): Olive (Olea europaea) fact sheet, the declared weed under the Landscape South Australia Act 2019
OleaDB, the worldwide olive germplasm database (Institute of Biosciences and BioResources, Italian National Research Council): cultivar sheet MISSION (what each paper in its bibliography reports)
University of California Cooperative Extension (Sonoma County): Primary world olive oil cultivars, including several California table varieties for comparison (the cultivar table)
HortFlora, the Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia online (Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria): Olea europaea (the commercial cultivars it names)
North Carolina State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox: Olea europaea (the species' leaf texture, scent and bark)

The growers, sizes and prices above are live and change as lists arrive. Cite this page: HortOS, Mission (Olea europaea 'Mission'), https://au.hortosapp.com/plants/olive-olea-europaea-mission.

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