%A SHI Zong-Ming-, SUN Wei-Bang %T On the Suitable Regions for Olive (Olea europaea) Growing in China %0 Journal Article %D 2011 %J Plant Diversity %R 10.3724/SP.J.1143.2011.11077 %P 571-579 %V 33 %N 5 %U {https://journal.kib.ac.cn/CN/abstract/article_33008.shtml} %8 2011-10-25 %X

Olive tree (Olea europaea) has been introduced into China for more than fifty years. Because of less knowledge about its unique ecological characteristics known by people in China during the early stage, its cropping has been occurred a rugged development. Based on the experience for about forty years of cultivation practice as well as the comparison and analysis about the climate between China and the Mediterranean region for olive growing, it can be concluded that the dry valleys in west China might be suitable areas for developing olive. The most potential regions for developing olive are the bailongjiang Valley in southern Gansu and the Jinshajiang (upper reach of Yangtze River)Valley in the northwestern Yunnan and the southwestern Sichuan.