The Pendolino is the top pollenizer in our olive groves and until just a few years ago it was considered a plant with a scarce production of oil and of mediocre quality. Today we have been able to show that, through harvesting the olives at the right moment, that is at the beginning of the harvest, the yield is indeed very low but the oil obtained presents prized and unmistakable characteristics. And, as they say in Tuscany, "Less is more good."
A highly vigorous plant with a hanging shape (hence it's name, from "pendulo" in Italian), it has a dense and voluminous head. The flowering is late with self-incompatible flowers and so it needs other cultivars for pollination. The olive has an elongated shape and is of medium-small size, with a uniform and precocious ripening with a low resistance to detachment. Good resistance at low temperatures.

Madonna dell'Impruneta: This cultivar has always been cultivated in the southern Florentine hills (in the surrounding of Impruneta Town, famous for its terracotta bricks).
A highly vigorous plant, it has a dense and wide head, hanging and fruit-bearing branches. Flowering usually occurs between the end of May and the very first day of June. The abundant and fertile flowers are incompatible or only partially compatible and therefore this plant needs other olive plants to be pollinated. The drupes have a big-medium size and an elongated shape, and reach a uniform and early maturity. The olives have a low resistance to detachment from the plant. The trees has good resistance to frost.

Leccino: This cultivar has an uncertain origin! On the Florentine area it was registered since the 1700 a.C. The Leccino plant is unique for its vigor and for its great shape. The bushy head is characterized by hanging branches and upright growth. The internodes are close. Flowering is generally intense with fertile and self-incompatible flowers. The drupes, oval shaped and of medium dimension, are one of the first variety that complete the maturity process and, usually, it is very uniform. The Leccino olives trees gives usually a good quantity of olives each year, but the yield in oil is always not so good. This cultivar has an excellent resistance to cold and disease.

Frantoio: This plant has always been one of the most cultivated in Tuscany and Italy and nowadays, thanks to the recognized quality and the constant productivity of its olives, it is being grown abroad.
The Frantoio plant is unique for its vigor and its semi-pendant shape with long, thin, fruit-bearing branches and upright growth. Flowering is generally intense with fertile and self-incompatible flowers. The drupes, with an elongated shape and an average size, reach maturity in an intermediate period and have an average resistance to detachment from the plant. The plant has scarce resistance to frost.

Moraiolo: This cultivar is very hardy and widespread. The head is not particularly expansive and not very bushy, and an upright inclination.. The flowering is of elevated intensity with only partially self-compatible flowers. The fruit, oval shaped and of medium dimension, has a high resistance to detachment and at the time of harvest is completely black or presents a nice shade of red, yellow and black. The yield in oil is one of the best of all Tuscan cultivars. It is sensitive to low temperatures and is a late ripening olive.

Leccio del Corno: This native Tuscan cultivar isn't very widespread, perhaps because its olives do not offer an abundant yield of oil and the production varies. A highly vigorous plant, it has a dense and wide head, hanging branches and close internodes: because of its majestic appearance it has always been used as an ornamental plant. Flowering is of middle to high intensity and usually occurs between the end of May and the beginning of June. The flowers of the Leccio del Corno are incompatible and therefore the presence of other olive plants is required for pollination. (In our olive groves we have had excellent results with the Pendolino). The drupes are an oval shape and small in size (especially in high production years), and they have the unique characteristic of being grouped in bunches. The darkening in color, and therefore the consequential maturation, are surely among the latest of the entire collection of Tuscan olives. They have excellent resistance to cold and disease.