Sarı Haşebi olive: characteristics, oil content and growing areas
Hatay's local table variety, virtually unknown outside the region and part of Kuseyr Plateau olive growing.
Sarı Haşebi is Hatay's local table variety, grown around Altınözü and almost unknown beyond the region — a good example of the quiet side of Türkiye's varietal wealth.
Sarı Haşebi in numbers
| Oil content | 25% |
| Fruits per kilo | 338 |
| Flesh ratio | 85% |
| Use | Table |
| Main areas | Hatay, Altınözü |
Source: Efe, Soykan, Cürebal and Sönmez (2016), Zeytin Kitabı. Fields the source leaves blank are shown as "—"; nothing has been estimated.
Where does it sit among the 17?
| Oil content | 6. of 17 |
| Fruit size (largest first) | 10. of 14 |
| Flesh ratio | 8. of 14 |
Ranking is computed from the measured values in the same source; varieties the source leaves blank are excluded from that column.
In short
Sarı Haşebi is a balanced table variety at 25% oil and 85% flesh, medium-sized at 338 fruits per kilo. Its lack of commercial spread makes it fragile: local varieties that find no market stop being planted and quietly disappear.
The values here are measured pomological data; variety-specific phenology and pollination research is absent from the sources we hold.
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