Discuss the significance of
the Title The olive tree
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The olive, known by the botanical name Olea europaea, meaning "European olive", is a species of small tree in the family Oleaceae, found traditionally in the Mediterranean Basin. The species is cultivated in all the countries of the Mediterranean, as well as South America, South Africa, India, China, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, and the United States.[1][2] Olea europaea is the type species for the genus Olea.
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Some have been known to live for over a thousand years. If cut down, new shoots spring up from its roots, so that as many as five new trunks could come into being.
The berries borne by the olive tree ripened in the early autumn and were harvested toward the end of November. Gathering of the fruit of the olive was – and is still today – an exercise of shaking the tree and its branches vigorously, causing the olive to fall to the ground. Sometimes the branches were beaten with poles to facilitate the dropping of the fruit. God declared to the ancient Israelites, “When you beat your olive trees, you shall not go over the boughs again; it shall be for the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow