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  • COMMON NAME: Jujube
  • ARABIC: السدر
  • BOTANICAL NAME: Ziziphus lotus L.
  • SYNONYMS: Rhamnus lotus L.
  • FAMILY: RHAMNACEAE
  • KIND: Native
  • EMIRATE: Abu-Dhabi , Fujairah
  • CATEGORIES: Medicinal (M) Fruits (F)
  • GROWTH FORMS: Shrubs
  • HABITATS: Slope (Stony)
  • TYPES: Perennial
https://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:719341-1 Flora of the United Arab Emirates V1 & 2, Fawzi M.Karim, Nael M.Fawzi; reviewed by Fatima Al-Ansary. Al-Ain: United Arab Emirates University, 2007. http://temperate.theferns.info/plant/Ziziphus+lotus
Edible fruit. Traditional medicine for treating a range of ailments, including diabetes, digestive, respiratory and cardiac diseases, or skin problems. The leaf powder is applied topically for treating abscesses and wounds. A decoction of the fruit is used in the treatment of diabetes, digestive and respiratory problems.

Bushy, impenetrable thickets, deciduous, thorny shrub, 1-1.5 meter high. Stems many, branches zigzag, white, slender, glabrous. Stipular spines, 5-12 mm long, in pairs, of one minute hooked and one straight, needle-like. Leaves 1-2 cm long ovate-oblong to broadly elliptical, glabrous, 3-nerved, petiolate. Flowers axillary, yellowish-green, solitary or in small clusters. Sepals ovate-triangular, glabrous. Petals obovate, truncate. Disk 10-lobed. Fruit 8-10 mm long, globular. Seeds about 6 mm long, brown. 

Flowering from March to April.
Stony slopes and alluvial plains.
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