Shape: betel nut is usually 10 meters and up to 30 meters. The olive is relatively taller and can grow up to 35 meters. Leaf Blade: Betel nut is narrow lanceolate, glabrous on both sides and serrated at the tip. The olive is elliptic or lanceolate, with hairy veins on the back, and is entire. Fruit: Betel nut is oblong, orange-yellow in color. While olive is ovoid back to fusiform, yellowish green.

One, the appearance of the difference

Betel nut stems more upright, is a tree, about 10 meters high, up to 30 meters long, there will be more obvious ring-shaped leaf scars. While the olive is relatively taller than the former, usually about 10-25 meters high, up to 35 meters, about centimeters in diameter at breast height.

Two, the leaf difference betel nut leaf cluster at the top of the stem, narrow lanceolate, both sides are glabrous, about 30-60 centimeters long, about 2.5-4 centimeters wide, above the synthesis of the pinnae, the tip of the irregularly toothed lobes. The leaves of the olive, on the other hand, are papery to leathery, lanceolate or elliptic, smaller in comparison with the former, about 6-14 centimeters long and 2.5.5 centimeters wide, hairy on the abaxial surface in the veins, and non-serrated along the entire margin.

Three, fruit difference

Betel nut fruit is oblong or ovoid, the color is orange-yellow. While the olive fruit is ovoid to fusiform, yellowish green when ripe.