A really excellent variety of table olives with a cylindrical shape and unilateral bending. The skin of the fruit is thin and elastic and acquires a deep black color at the stage of full maturity, while its core is smooth and easily detached from the flesh.
A completely special variety of edible olives with black-purple color, round silhouette and filling rich flesh. It is cultivated in many areas of Greece and is the most widespread variety of edible olive along with Kalamon in Greece.
This variety is characterized by its big fruit size its large ratio of flesh to kernel, its bright green to green-yellow color, its delicate fruity aroma and the slightly bitter taste.
Depending on the characteristics of each variety, the cultivating methods that are used, the size of the production, the weather conditions of the current year as well as the special local conditions, olives can be produced in many different sizes.
For this reason there has been established an international size chart according to which each description label matches to a specific range number of olives' pieces that can be contained in 1kg of the product.