Ziziphus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Rhamnaceae
- Genus
- Ziziphus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Ziziphus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ziziphus
Ziziphus is a genus of spiny shrubs and small trees in the buckthorn family, Rhamnaceae. It includes 68 species native to tropical and subtropical Africa, Eurasia, and Australia and tropical South America. The leaves are alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, and often aromatic. The flowers are small, inconspicuous yellow-green. The fruit is an edible drupe, often very sweet and sugary, reminiscent of a date in texture and flavour.
Well known species include the commonly cultivated Ziziphus jujuba (jujube), Ziziphus spina-christi from southwestern Asia, Ziziphus lotus from the Mediterranean region, and ber (Ziziphus mauritiana), which is found from western Africa to India.
...Ziziphus in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Wag-'n-bietjies
- Arabic
- sidr
- Arabic
- السدر
- Chinese
- 棗屬
- Czech
- cicimek
- English
- Jujubes
- Finnish
- jujubat
- Italian
- Giuggioli
- Italian
- Zizifo
- Japanese
- ナツメ属
- Korean
- 대추나무속
- Russian
- Зизифус
- Swedish
- jujubersläktet
- Thai
- สกุล พุทรา
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Ziziphus abyssinica
- Ziziphus acuminata
- Ziziphus angustifolia
- Ziziphus budhensis
- Ziziphus calophylla
- Ziziphus cambodiana
- Ziziphus elegans
- Ziziphus glabrata
- Ziziphus hajarensis
- Ziziphus horrida
- Ziziphus horsfieldii
- Ziziphus hutchinsonii
- Ziziphus incurva
- Ziziphus jujuba
- Ziziphus lotus
- Ziziphus mauritiana
- Ziziphus mucronata
- Ziziphus nummularia
- Ziziphus oenopolia
- Ziziphus pubescens
- Ziziphus rivularis
- Ziziphus robertsoniana
- Ziziphus rugosa
- Ziziphus spina-christi
- Ziziphus talanae
- Ziziphus xylopyrus
- Ziziphus zeyheriana































































































































































