Noted locally in planters on the street: shrubby russian-olives, with handsome gray-green leaves: (#1) The Russian-olive is to some degree Russian in origin, but it’s not an olive, so the composite Russian-olive is non-subsective — a resembloid composite, in fact. From Wikipedia: Elaeagnus angustifolia, commonly called silver berry, oleaster, Persian olive, or wild olive, or … Continue reading Russian-olive