What plant branch appears inside the wreath on Eritrea's national flag?

The plant branch inside the wreath on Eritrea’s national flag is an olive branch.

The emblem is placed in a gold-colored area of the red triangle near the hoist. It shows an upright olive branch surrounded by an olive wreath, a design inherited from Eritrea’s 1952–1962 flag during its federation with Ethiopia.

Eritrea adopted its present flag on 5 December 1995. The flag’s red triangle represents the country’s shape and the bloodshed of the independence struggle, while green is associated with agriculture and livestock and blue with the sea.

A common mix-up is to identify the branch as laurel, another traditional emblem of peace and victory. Eritrea’s symbol is specifically olive: the wreath’s 30 leaves are commonly explained as representing the roughly 30 years of armed struggle before independence in 1993.