Posts Tagged ‘Croatia’

Old Olive Tree


2010
02.23

Photography taken on island of Pag, Croatia near village called Lun in botanical reserve where the oldest olive tree is over 1.000 years old, and still giving fruits.

From Wikipedia:

The olive tree is an evergreen tree or shrub native to the Mediterranean, Asia and Africa. It is short and squat, and rarely exceeds 8–15 metres (26–49 ft) in height. The silvery green leaves are oblong in shape, measuring 4–10 centimetres (1.6–3.9 in) long and 1–3 centimetres (0.39–1.2 in) wide. The trunk is typically gnarled and twisted.

The small white flowers, with ten-cleft calyx and corolla, two stamens and bifid stigma, are borne generally on the last year’s wood, in racemes springing from the axils of the leaves.

The fruit is a small drupe 1–2.5 centimetres (0.39–0.98 in) long, thinner-fleshed and smaller in wild plants than in orchard cultivars. Olives are harvested at the green stage (green olives) or left to ripen to a rich purple colour (black olives). Canned black olives may contain chemicals that turn them black artificially.

New images for Rovinj gallery


2009
08.21

New images for Rovinj gallery… work in progress

New images for Rovinj photo gallery… work in progress

New images for Rovinj photo gallery… work in progress

Meacco Peacco Alphons resting after a hard work day :)

Trip to the city of my birth


2009
05.06

Trip to the city of my birth

Trip to the city of my birth

Trip to the city of my birth

Trip to the city of my birth