Antalya Tavşan Yüreği Olive: a registration named after the shape of its fruit
Registered in 2018. Fruit and stone are heart-shaped; picked green, its oil runs 9-20.2%, rising to 25% at black maturity.
Olive cultivars usually carry the name of a place. Tavşan Yüreği — “hare's heart” — takes its name from the shape of its fruit, and the certificate records that shape as a distinguishing feature.
The record
| Registration no | 384 |
| Registration date | 06.09.2018 |
| Application | C2014/033 · 04.06.2014 |
| Type | Designation of origin |
| Registered by | Antalya Commodity Exchange |
| Area | The province of Antalya |
| Cultivar | Tavşanyüreği |
The shape
According to the certificate fruit and stone are oval, symmetric and heart-shaped, with the widest point towards the stalk. The distinguishing features listed are the ease with which the stone leaves the flesh, the very large fruit, and the lateral and longitudinal symmetry that gives the heart shape.
Why it is picked green
Mills usually press olives at black maturity. Antalya Tavşan Yüreği is picked before it blackens, and the consequence is measurable:
| Stage | Oil content |
|---|---|
| Green maturity (harvest) | 9 – 20.2% |
| Black maturity | reaches 25% |
The cultivar does not go to oil because it is picked before the oil accumulates; it is generally taken for brining.
Measured values
| Criterion | Value |
|---|---|
| Fruits per kilogram | 210 – 224 |
| Weight of 100 fruits | 370 – 608 g |
| Weight of 100 stones | 70 – 105 g |
| Flesh ratio | 77 – 88% |
| Stone ratio | 14 – 23% |
| Fruit length | 18.62 – 27.60 mm |
| Fruit width | 15.03 – 19.32 mm |
| Stone length | 13 – 17 mm |
| Stone width | 8 – 10 mm |
| Moisture (green maturity) | 65 – 68% |
| Dry matter in juice | 15.3% average |
At green maturity the flesh is firm — suited to table processing.
The tree
Growth is vigorous, forming a medium-sized, rounded crown with spreading, dense branches. Crown height is 5.5-6 m. Flowering shoots are grey-green, with internodes of medium length and medium pubescence. Leaves are medium-sized, long and narrow, elliptical-lanceolate, with a concave curvature along the long axis of the blade.
The cultivar is obtained from grafted plants or from rooted cuttings.
In short
Antalya Tavşan Yüreği Olive is a large, heart-shaped green table olive particular to Antalya. The instructive part of the certificate is that it gives oil content as two separate figures by harvest stage — showing what the same fruit becomes depending on when it is picked.
Source: Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, Geographical Indication Registration Certificate No 384 — Antalya Tavşan Yüreği Zeytini.
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