Beck, Neeli Rose and Namdeo, Kamta Prashad (2023) Plant Profile of Zizyphus jujube (Rhamnaceae). B P International, pp. 148-153. ISBN 978-81-967669-4-8
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A small sub deciduous tree with a dense spreading crown, commonly it is 0.6 m. Girth and 6 m high. Bark is blackish to grey or brown in colour, rough, regularly and deeply furrowed, the furrows about 1.2cm apart. Blaze is 9 -13mm, short fiber, and pink with or without paler streaks, the juice turning purplish black on the blade of a knife. Branches are usually armed with spines, mostly in pairs, one straight, the other curved. Young are more or less densely pubescent. Leaves 3-6.3 by 2.5-5cm, oblong or ovate, usually minutely serrulate or apex, distinctly toothed, obtuse, base oblique and 3 nerved, nerves depressed on the glabrous shining upper surface, densely clothed beneath with white or buff tomentum. Petioles are 2.5 -10 mm long. Flowers are 3.8-5mm.diam., greenish in colour, with dense axillary tomentose cymes or fascicles 1.2-1.9 cm long. Drupes are 1.2-2.5 cm. diam., globose in shape, first yellow then orange and finally reddish brown, containing a single stone surrounded by fleshy pulp. Zizyphus jujube is indigenous and naturalized throughout India, Burma and Ceylon, in the outer Himalaya up to 4,500ft. China, Afghanistan, Africa, Australia, Korea, Japan.
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Subjects: | Research Asian Plos > Medical Science |
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Date Deposited: | 20 Nov 2023 08:13 |
Last Modified: | 17 Oct 2024 05:07 |
URI: | http://abstract.stmdigitallibrary.com/id/eprint/2137 |