Bonsai of Olive.
Safe delivery in a wooden crate.

• Height: 44 cm (excluding pot)

• Width: 47 cm

• Trunk: 37 cm

• Pot: 10 x 40 x 30 cm

Photos taken in March 2026

Olive bonsai

This Olive bonsai (Olea europaea) is the classic Mediterranean olive grown in miniature, perhaps the most evocative of all the trees of the warm south. Its narrow silver-backed leaves catch the light, and the trunk carries the gnarled, twisting character that has made the olive a symbol of long life and patience.

Olea europaea is treasured in bonsai because it ages so beautifully. The bark furrows and the wood takes on movement that mirrors the ancient olives standing in groves that have been worked for generations. Even in a small specimen, the olive reads as a tree with a story behind it.

Heritage and appeal

No tree is more closely bound to Mediterranean culture than the olive. It has fed and shaded the people of the inland sea since antiquity, and its silvery canopy is woven into the landscape of the whole region. As a bonsai it brings that heritage home, and its slow, sculptural growth makes it a favourite among collectors who value age and texture.

About this specimen

The photos show the exact plant you will receive, pot included. Every Olive bonsai is unique, with its own twist of trunk, its own bark and its own arrangement of silver foliage. What you see in the images is what arrives at your door, packed for safe delivery.

It is a tree of real character, the kind that quietly carries the feeling of a sunlit grove into a room.

A Mediterranean icon

The olive is the emblem of the south, present in its food, its art and its oldest stories. An Olive bonsai distils that whole world into a single small tree, and for anyone drawn to weathered trunks and silver leaves it makes a deeply rewarding choice that only grows more characterful with age.