This very hardy large and attractive shrub is widely grown in Europe and Asia and is prized for its upright growth habit, willow-like, silver-gray foliage and small, greenish-yellow, very fragrant flowers. A form of Russian Olive, Trebizond Date bears abundant, date-like fruits that are sweet and good for fresh eating and are also very popular dried. Trebizond Date is tolerant to extremes of heat and cold and can be grown as a small tree or prune it back to keep it as a shrub. We offer two forms that we selected from seedlings brought from Uzbekistan many years ago.