This is one of our trees which is made up of four trunks from one root.
It is like this because in 1985 and again in 1995, Umbria suffered from a severe frost which killed off many thousands of olive trees from the ground upwards.
Olives are resistant to cold to a point but the weather was severe and many degrees below zero for days on end. Even olives cannot survive this.
The re-growth was allowed to grow to become anything from 2 to 3 to 4 trunks as we have here in our grove today.
