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.
Author(s) Details:
Neeli Rose Beck,
Department of Pharmacy, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.
Kamta Prashad Namdeo,
Department of Pharmacy, Guru Ghasidas Vishwavidyalaya, Bilaspur, Chhattisgarh, India.
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