Overripe fruits are wrinkled the flesh is buff-colored, soft, spongy and musky. Fully ripe fruits are less crisp and somewhat mealy. When slightly under ripe, the flesh is white, crisp, juicy, acid or sub acid to sweet, somewhat astringent, much like that of a crabapple.
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Skin is smooth or rough, glossy, thin but tough. Fruits are initially green turning to light-green to yellow, later becomes partially or wholly burnt-orange or red-brown or all-red as they completely matures. It can be oval, obovate, oblong or round, and can be 1-2.5 in (2.5-6.25 cm) long, depending on the variety. Flowering mostly occurs from late summer through to early winter.įertile flowers are followed by drupe that can be variable in shape and size. The individual flowers are borne on short hairy stalks up to 4 mm long and consist of five hairy sepals that are fused at the base, five membranous petals, five stamens, and the bisexual flowers also have an ovary with two or three styles. axils), with each cluster usually containing 10-15 flowers. These flowers are usually arranged in small loose clusters in the leaf forks (i.e. They may either have male and female parts or only male parts. The inconspicuous flowers that are 5-8 mm across are greenish, greenish-yellow or whitish in color. mauritiana may be evergreen or deciduous. Depending on the climate, the foliage of the Z. These leaves have three conspicuous main veins and finely toothed or almost entire margins. Their upper surfaces are dark green in color, glabrous and glossy while their lower surfaces are covered with whitish or rusty colored hairs.
These leaves are relatively small 20-80 mm long and 8-50 mm wide and somewhat oval in shape or egg-shaped in outline. The alternately arranged leaves are borne on stalks that are 2-16 mm long. Older stems have a dark grey to blackish colored bark that is rough and somewhat furrowed. They usually bear a single curved thorn that is 5-20 mm long and a leaf at each joint. pubescent or tomentose) and are greenish or whitish in color. The young stems have a zig-zagging nature, are finely hairy (i.e. The spines are solitary or borne in pairs at the base of the leaves, 5 to 7 mm long The plant has dark grey or dull black and irregularly fissured bark. Even moderately saline soils are tolerated. It also grows well on laterite, medium black soils with good drainage, or sandy, gravelly, alluvial soil of dry river-beds where it is vigorously spontaneous. The plant grows best on sandy loam, neutral or slightly alkaline. The plant is found growing in roadsides, agricultural land, river levees, margins of springs, alluvial flats, natural forests, riparian zones, ruderal/disturbed, thickets along river banks, hills and slopes, pastures, grasslands, open woodlands, floodplains, inland watercourses, disturbed sites, waste areas in semi-arid, tropical and sub-tropical regions. Indian jujube is a much-branched, spiny, evergreen bushy shrub or a tree that grows up to 15 m high, with trunk 40 cm or more in diameter. The generic name is derived from the Latinized version of the Arabic vernacular name ‘zizouf’ for Z. The name ‘Ziziphus’ is often erroneously written as Zizyphus. Few of the most popular common names of the plants are Bear Tree, Ber, Chinee Apple, Common Jujube, Cottony Jujube, Desert Apple, Dunks, Indian Cherry, Indian Jujube, Indian Plum, Jujube, Sour Jujube, Yunnan Jujube, Yunnan Spiny Jujube, Chinese date, jujube, Chinese apple and Malay jujube. It can form dense stands and become invasive in some areas, including Fiji and Australia and has become a serious environmental weed in Northern Australia. It is now widely naturalized throughout the Old World tropics from Southern Africa through the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent and China, Indo-Malaya, and into Australasia and the Pacific Islands. The species is believed to have originated in Indo-Malaysian region of South-East Asia. Ziziphus mauritiana, also known as Indian jujube, Chinese date, ber, Chinee apple is a tropical fruit tree species belonging to the family Rhamnaceae.