Olive wood is wood harvested from Olea europaea and O. capensis, two types of Olive trees that originate from southern and eastern Mediterranean countries in Europe and Eastern Africa. Even though Olive trees can live exceptionally long and can grow up to 40 meters (130 ft) in height, such occurrences are rare, and the vast majority of trees manages to grow up to 10 meters (33 ft) with 1-1.5 meters trunk diameter.While olive trees are praised around the world for their fruit, its lumber has also managed to capture the attention of the worldwide woodworking community, who has managed to find great uses for this hard, heavy, dense and very strong type of wood.Olive usually grows in a very twisted and irregular way, with a large number of side branches twisting the trunk in many directions, which makes extracting large and straight pieces of lumber difficult. The vast majority of lumber extracted from grown Olive trees is cut into smaller pieces and is used for the creation of smaller indoor objects, with largest one usually being table top panels or structural objects in furniture.Visually, olive wood has a strikingly rich and colorful appearance, which makes it perfect for use in decorative objects. Its structural features are highly contrasting brown lines and yellow streaks of sapwood, and even more importantly, the surface of olive wood can be easily polished to a high degree. While it can be a bit uncooperating during cutting, olive wood can easily be glued. During cutting, has a distinct, pleasant and sweet odor, and this odor usually remains present in the finished product for several years.