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Ziziphus jujuba Mill.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Ziziphus Mill. (ナツメ)
Z. jujuba Mill. (ナツメ, s.l.)
var. inermis (Bunge) Rehder
Natsume (ナツメ, 棗, s.s.), (common) jujube or Chinese date
Lifeform: deciduous tree
Distribution: originally in southern Europe (or China)

imported to Japan in Nara Era or earlier

Fruit: green → yellow → red
Use: wood, edible and medicine (fruit containing D-fructose, zizyphus saponin I, etc.)
Synonyms:

Ziziphus zizyphus (L.) H. Karst.

var. jujuba (ヤマナツメ)
var. spinosa (Bunge) Hu ex H. F. Chow (サネブトナツメ)
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索引

Ziziphus jujuba transplanted in Hokkaido


ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5
[1-5] in Experimental Station for Medical Plant Studies, Faculty of Medicine, Hokkaido University. [1/2] on August 25 2022. [3-5] on August 30 2022.

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