I think you may have a very similar plant instead of the Russian Olive:
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=269
So far, I haven't been able to find any definitive botanical differences between the two, except that the leaves look a bit greener & wider for the Autumn-Olive, and the flowers don't seem as large and yellow. The color of the flower calyx in your pictures is a definite match for the pics in the Virginia tech website.
The Autumn Olive doesn't get as big! "A shrub or very small tree to 15 feet, rounded in outline."
Russian Olive= "A shrub or small tree to 40 feet, rounded in outline."
I think you got Autumn Olive there. Since some of the other guys have maintained that the Russian Olive doesn't get very big, I think it is a rather common point of confusion. Prior to this little bit of research, I was about to agree with you that it was a Russian Olive. The differences are pretty minor.
http://dendro.cnre.vt.edu/dendrology/syllabus/factsheet.cfm?ID=269
So far, I haven't been able to find any definitive botanical differences between the two, except that the leaves look a bit greener & wider for the Autumn-Olive, and the flowers don't seem as large and yellow. The color of the flower calyx in your pictures is a definite match for the pics in the Virginia tech website.
The Autumn Olive doesn't get as big! "A shrub or very small tree to 15 feet, rounded in outline."
Russian Olive= "A shrub or small tree to 40 feet, rounded in outline."
I think you got Autumn Olive there. Since some of the other guys have maintained that the Russian Olive doesn't get very big, I think it is a rather common point of confusion. Prior to this little bit of research, I was about to agree with you that it was a Russian Olive. The differences are pretty minor.