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Badar (Species 2)

Common Names


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CLASSIFICATION


TAXON 


Ziziphus jujuba Mill.

FAMILY 


Rhamnaceae Juss.

ALTERNATE FAMILY


nom. cons.

SUBTRIBE


Paliureae

GENUS 


Ziziphus Mill.

SPECIES


jujuba Mill. Gard. dict. ed. 8: Ziziphus no. 1. 1768, nom. cons. prop.


Plant Description


A small tree or shrub, with spreading branches, glabrous, prickles stout, straight up to 3 cm long, older tree unarmed, leaves coriaceous, glabrous, obliquely oblong-ovate, lanceolate, crenate to serrate, obtuse-subacute, base slightly cordate, 2-5 cm x 1-2.5 cm; petiole very short c. 1-2 mm long, Inflorescence of axillary clusters. Flower 3-4 mm in diameter, peduncles very short; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Calyx ovate, acuminate somewhat keeled. Petals spathulate cucullate, c. 2 mm long. Disc thin, 5-lobed, styles 2 united to the middle, fruit globose or oblong 1-2 x .5-1 cm, succulent, shining.

Flowering Period: June-July.

 

*Description source:  Efloras.org

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