Green olives

Green olives (Olea europaea L.) The green olive is the unripe fruit of Olea europaea L., a drupe with well-differentiated exocarp (skin), mesocarp (pulp) and endocarp (lignified stone). At the “green” stage, the fruit has not yet started, or has only just started, the veraison process (colour change towards purple–black). It shows a green to...