Wild Jujube is a small tree or straggling shrub, armed with stipular
spines, solitary or paired with a broad base. Young branches are
yellow-velvety. Leaves, 5-12.5x4-6 cm, are broadly elliptic, short-tippes,
denticulate, base oblique, wrinkled, petiole 0.8-1.5 cm long, densely
velvet-hairy. Inflorescence of pedunculate cymes, densely pubescent,
peduncle c.5 mm long. Pedicel, to 4 mm long. Calyx puberulous inside 1.5-2
mm long, with ovate acute lobes. Petals absent. Disc 5-lobed, styles 2,
connate below the middle. Fruit c. 5-8 mm in diameter, globose or pyriform,
white when ripe. Flowering: December-January.
Identification credit: Ajinkya Gadave
Photographed in Maharashtra.
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