HERB - Fw: Botanical Research Help Needed

[sunshinegirl]

Does anyone have any information or URLs on olives that I could send her?
Melandra

From: Irene leNoir <irene at ICI.NET>

> Hiya,
>
> I find myself needing to do research in an area that is completely out of
> my area of knowledge - plants, or more specifically, olives.
>
> I'm trying to track down information on which varieties of olive trees
> were grown in the south of what is now known as France, during the mid to
> late 15th century.
>
> I checked my local library, and they had nothing, so I've been doing web
> searches.
>
> I've managed to determine that olives are in the Oleaceae family, and the
> Olea genus.  At this point I'm now looking for a list of different
> species, with information on where these different species grow, what the
> plant looks like, what the flowers look like, etc.
>
> Unfortunately, at this point my web searches cease to return very useful
> results.
>
> Does anyone have any knowledge on this topic or any ideas on how to
> progress?
>
> Jessica Clark
> SCA: Irène leNoir
> irene at ici.net
> http://home.ici.net/~beowulf/jessica



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