Charnwood Homestead’s olive and orange trees

An fruit-laden olive tree adds to the aesthetics at the site of the former Charnwood Homestead. Photo: Jamila Toderas

A recent display of ACT Heritage Registered Trees at the ACT Heritage Library in Woden included a poster featuring osage orange trees and three olive trees (Olea europaea) on the site of the former Charnwood Homestead in Fraser. When registered in August last year, the largest olive tree was 13 metres in height with a 15-metre width and a trunk circumference of 4.35 metres.