Please help. It has purple fruit that taste very bad. [Melbourne] Update: confirmed olive tree and I'm feeling a little embarrassed. by FeelingTangelo9341 Gardening Australia 6 Comments FeelingTangelo9341 4 weeks ago Plant is in Melbourne. Tom-Montgomery 4 weeks ago Yes, it is indeed an olive tree. Dob-a-do 4 weeks ago Olives cannot be eaten straight from the tree . You can prune it down if you want to make it thicker winoforever_slurp_ 4 weeks ago Yes. You need to pickle olives before you can eat them. Try that, it’s fun. Then in spring look up how to prune the tree DingoEmergency9204 4 weeks ago Get rid of it. It’s a feral olive tree. pisslord 4 weeks ago Looks like it. Although you can’t eat olives off the tree, you need to cure them for a few months in brine. Best to look at some recipes.
Dob-a-do 4 weeks ago Olives cannot be eaten straight from the tree . You can prune it down if you want to make it thicker
winoforever_slurp_ 4 weeks ago Yes. You need to pickle olives before you can eat them. Try that, it’s fun. Then in spring look up how to prune the tree
pisslord 4 weeks ago Looks like it. Although you can’t eat olives off the tree, you need to cure them for a few months in brine. Best to look at some recipes.
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Plant is in Melbourne.
Yes, it is indeed an olive tree.
Olives cannot be eaten straight from the tree . You can prune it down if you want to make it thicker
Yes. You need to pickle olives before you can eat them. Try that, it’s fun. Then in spring look up how to prune the tree
Get rid of it. It’s a feral olive tree.
Looks like it. Although you can’t eat olives off the tree, you need to cure them for a few months in brine. Best to look at some recipes.