Ziziphus jujuba

• Botanical Name : Ziziphus jujuba Mill.
• Synonyms : Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.
• Common Name : Indian Jujube, Indian Plum, Bor, Mota Bor
• Plant Family : Rhamnaceae
• Plant Form : Tree
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 2, 4, 6, 10, 15, 17, 22, 26, 27, 30
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra, Basan, Aranya Van

About Ziziphus jujuba Plant :

• Habit : A small thorny tree.
• Leaves : Small, ovate or roundish, slightly oblique, glabrous above, buff hairy below, 3-nerved, stipulate, stipules spiny-one straight and other hooked.
• Flowers :
  • Greenish-yellow, axillary cymes.
  • Calyx 5-fid, hairy.
  • Petals 5, hooked, rounded.
  • Stamens 5, enclosed in the petals.
  • Disk with 10 grooved lobes.
  • Ovary half sunk in disk, ovoid, styles 2, connate for about half their length.
• Fruit : Globose, smooth, yellow, red all when ripe.  
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : September - October
• Significance : Extensively cultivated for its fruits and timber.