Rio Grande do Sul Feral Olives May Increase theSpecies Genetic Variability
Journal: Journal of American Pomological Society
Year: 2023

As part of a new wave of expansion in Brazil, olive orchards were planted in a farm later called Cerro dos Olivais (Caçapava do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul) since 2001 to 2006, where frugivorous dark guans have been observed sleeping, resting and eating olive fruit. Olive seedlings were discovered recently under the rows of pines planted close to the mentioned orchards as windbreaks. This in situapparently easy germination suggests that both the passage of the olive endocarps through the birds’ intes