Olive

Two or three gnarled stems splaying from its foot, each with small ragged silvery puffs of leaves, the sky showing through them.

About 4 m tall out in the open.

Where it grows

Land	How many of the trees
Shrubland	Two in five

Trees of a kind keep together in stands about 60 m across.

Through the year

It leafs out in spring, its bare twigs budding green first. In autumn its leaves turn olive-brown, hardly turning, each tree in its own time, then fall pixel by pixel until the crown is bare twigs. It stands bare through the winter. In the warm south, where it never grows cold, it keeps its leaves all year.

In play

Its trunk stops men and horses, who go round it. Wildfire leaves it black and bare, and burnt or felled ground grows back over about four years.