Common Jujube
Zizyphus jujuba var. inermis · Rhamnaceae · 대추나무
How to spot it
Identified by zigzag branches with thorns and the distinctive fruit that changes from green to wrinkled jujube-red.
Look
- Leaves
- Egg-shaped and shiny, 2 to 6 cm long with blunt teeth on the margin and three large veins from the base. The stipules often turn into thorns 3 cm long.
- Flowers
- Pale green flowers bloom from late May to mid-July.
- Fruit
- The drupe is elliptic, 1.5 to 2.5 cm long, reddish-brown or dark brown, ripening in September to October.
- Bark
- The bark is gray-brown; several one-year-old twigs grow from one spot, and some die and fall off over winter.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Native to China.
- Ecology
- An intermediate-shade tree with strong cold and drought tolerance and strong resistance to air pollution; as a fruit tree, harvest varies greatly with rain, cold and lack of sunlight during flowering.