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Family: Rhamnaceae	Genus: Ziziphus	Species: Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.

Habit	Leaf	Flower	Fruit	Bark

Synonym	Ziziphus jujuba (Linn.) Gaertner, Rhamnus jujuba Linn.	Flower Color	Greenish
Common Name	Ber , Jujube	Flower Type	Cyme
English / Trade Name	Jujube, Ber	Flowering Period	July-Sept
Vernacular /Local Name	Ber	Fruiting Period	Oct-Dec
Altitude	1650 M	Fruit Type	Drupe
Habit	Tree	Fruit Details	Drupes yellow or reddish, globose, fleshy, 8 – 12 mm across.
Habitat	Dry gravelly or stony slopes of hills and mountains	Bark Type	Smooth
Distribution	China to Afghanistan, Malaysia and Queensland, Australia and cultivated througout Lebanon, Iran, Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, the Korean and also Southeastern Europe	Bark Details	Bark very thorny, dense, irregular.thin, gray, smooth
Distribution in chandigarh	Chandigarh Botanical Garden and Nature Park, Butterfly Park , Rock garden, Sector 1, Sector 9, Sector 10, Sector 12, Sector 17, Sector 20, Sector 29, Sector 45, Sector 46, Sector 53, Sector 54	Origin	Exotic
		Leaf Type	Simple
		Leaf Arrangement	Alternate (leaves born singly along stem)
		Leaf Shape	Ovate
Description of Species	Subdeciduous, spinous trees or shrubs; stem grey brown, young branches densely tomentose. Leaves variable, elliptic, ovate – oblong, 3 – 5 cm long, serrulate, base subcordate, obtuse or acute tip, dark – green, glabrous above; pale – tomentose beneath. Prickles solitary, straight or curved. Flowers in short axillary, subsessile cymes; greenish – yellow, about 4 mm across. Calyx lobes deflexed. Petals 5, with claws. Disc fleshy, 10 lobed. Ovary 2 – celled; styles 2, connate at meddle. Drupes yellow or reddish, globose, fleshy, 8 – 12 mm across.	Leaf Details	Leaves variable, elliptic, ovate – oblong, 3 – 5 cm long, serrulate, base subcordate, obtuse or acute tip, dark – green, glabrous above; pale – tomentose beneath. Prickles solitary, straight or curved.

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