Scientific Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
(unranked): Angiosperms
(unranked): Eudicots
(unranked): Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Genus: Ziziphus
Species: Ziziphus spina-christi
Kingdom: Plants, Plantae
Phylum: Flowering plants, Tracheophyta
Class: Magnoliids, Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Genus: Ziziphus
Species: Christ's Thorn Jujube, spina-christi (L.) Willd.
Ziziphus spina-christi aucheri
var. aucheri (Boiss.) Qaiser & Nazim.
Division: Angiospermae
Class: Dicotyledoneae
Subclass: Archichlamydeae
Order: Rhamnales
Family: Rhamnaceae
Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.
Botanical (Binomial) name: Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf.
Synonyms: Rhamnus spina-christi L.
Latin (Botanical - Species) name: Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Willd.
Family: Rhamnaceae
Common name:
Arabic: Sidr, Nabq, Nabaq, Gabaat, Siddir, Nubak, Nabdag, Nabbak, Nabak
English: Jujube Christ, Christ thorn
French: epine du Christ
Plant description:
RHAMNACEAE A. Juss. Woody plants with simple, stipulate frequently 3-5-nerved leaves and small greenish or yellowish flowers, often in axillary cymes; intra-staminal disc well developed; fruit a drupe or capsule.. Leaves alternate, 3-nerved beneath. ZIZIPHUS Mill. Trees or shrubs with ovate, beneath 3-nerved leaves. Flowers bisexual, 5-fid. Fruit a yellow to brown-red drupe. Tree, leaves over 2.5 cm. long. ZIZIPHUS SPINA-CHRISTI (L.) Willd.: Branches white, glabrous. Leaves glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath. Stipules transformed into spines in wild forms (v. divaricatus Forssk.) unarmed in cultivated forms (v. rectus Forssk.). (Frut.). Also the latter variety frequently naturalized. Fruit edible, of cherry-size.
Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.
Propagation: Fruits (seeds), Trees or shrubs in Upper Egypt.
Origin: Egypt
Family: Rhamnaceae
Common name:
Arabic: Sidr, Nabq, Nabaq, Gabaat, Siddir, Nubak, Nabdag, Nabbak, Nabak
English: Jujube Christ, Christ thorn
French: epine du Christ
Plant description:
RHAMNACEAE A. Juss. Woody plants with simple, stipulate frequently 3-5-nerved leaves and small greenish or yellowish flowers, often in axillary cymes; intra-staminal disc well developed; fruit a drupe or capsule.. Leaves alternate, 3-nerved beneath. ZIZIPHUS Mill. Trees or shrubs with ovate, beneath 3-nerved leaves. Flowers bisexual, 5-fid. Fruit a yellow to brown-red drupe. Tree, leaves over 2.5 cm. long. ZIZIPHUS SPINA-CHRISTI (L.) Willd.: Branches white, glabrous. Leaves glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath. Stipules transformed into spines in wild forms (v. divaricatus Forssk.) unarmed in cultivated forms (v. rectus Forssk.). (Frut.). Also the latter variety frequently naturalized. Fruit edible, of cherry-size.
Source: STUDENTS’ FLORA OF EGYPT second edition, by VIVI TÄCKHOLM, D. Sc. (Stockholm) Professor of Systematic Botany, Faculty of Science, Cairo University. Published by Cairo University. Printed by COOPERATIVE PRINTING COMPANY Beirut, 1974.
Propagation: Fruits (seeds), Trees or shrubs in Upper Egypt.
Origin: Egypt
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