Iris Cohen wrote:

I have seen probably thousands of olive trees in Spain, Greece and Italy,
many of them over a
thousand years old but not one of them over fifteen feet tall - and only rarely
that high.

Maybe I need my glasses changed. I am sure the olive trees at Neot Kedumim &
the Jerusalem Zoo were a good 20 or so feet at least. Maybe we have a
translation problem. I don't have time to keep looking, but the first Web site
I found says it grows 30 feet tall.

Remember most oliv trees are for growing olivs. So it makes sense to
keep the trees short in order to be able to pick them. If you let them
grow free its probably another story.

Henrik Gistvall, Uppsala, Sweden

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