Štorta is an olive variety growing in Slovenia and Italy. This olive gets its name from the curved shape of the fruit (“storto” is Italian for curved). The Štorta olive tree is medium-sized, with a sparse crown and light green, slightly curved leaves. Ripe fruits are green-violet, medium-large, curved, and asymmetric elongated. This olive ripens early, and tolerates cold well, but is unfortunately very attractive to the olive fly. The fruits contain very little olive oil and are harvested mostly like table olives. Well suited for salting and pickling, as the fruits are very tasty, fragrant, and of the right consistency.
