Survives zone 8 through 9
Small sweet drupes; leaves used for tea. Care: Winter protection;* tender evergreen.
- Hardiness
- Zone 8 to 9
- Habit
- Shrub
- Edible part
- Leaf, Fruit
- Ripens
- September
- Mature size
- Shrub 1–3 m; often grown as bonsai
- Light
- Full sun to partial
- Soil pH
- 6.0–7.5 (adaptable)
- Environment
- Temperate
- Status
- Both wild and cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 3–4 yrs to flower, then 3–6 more to ripen
- Pollination
- Jujube partially self-fertile — crops much better with a 2nd cultivar