Lucca Olive Tree
A cold hardy characteristic is very important to a gardener, and the Lucca Olive tree is outstanding in displaying below freezing resistance below 20 degrees F. The Lucca Olive tree was hybridized for Italian cultivars in American by hybridizer, Hartman at the University of California at Davis, and he has developed this very vigorous tree that reliably produces large yields of olives. To be commercially desirable for olive oil an olive tree must produce fruit that contains a high percentage of oil, and the Lucca olive produces fruit with a 28% content of oil. The oil produced from the Lucca olive has been described by tasters of professional status as having a sweet buttery flavor, and slightly bitter. Olive trees at TyTy Nursery are grafted, a process that fixes certain characteristics such as fruit quality production and yield.