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Survives zone 6 through 9
Crisp and apple-like fresh; sweet, wrinkled and DATE-LIKE when dried. Very high vitamin C.
- Hardiness
- Zone 6 to 9
- Habit
- Tree
- Edible part
- Fruit
- Ripens
- Sept
- Mature size
- Small tree 5–9 m; compact cultivars containerable
- Light
- Full sun (needs heat)
- Soil pH
- 6.0–8.5 (jujube VERY alkaline- and salt-tolerant)
- Environment
- Warm-temperate semi-arid
- Status
- Cultivated
- Years to fruit
- 1–2 yrs (exceptionally precocious — often fruits in its planting year)
- Pollination
- Partially self-fertile — much better with a 2nd cultivar