Genus Ziziphus

Condaliopsis Suess. Sarcomphalus P.

Species in the genus Ziziphus of plants

 
 

Florida jujube - It is a small spiny shrub that is usually less than 2 meters tall. Clusters of highly fragrant tiny green flowers are borne in winter, and grape-sized, yellow-orange fruit develop in spring.

Chinese jujube - Ziziphus zizyphus , commonly called jujube , red date, or Chinese date, is a species of Ziziphus in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae, used primarily as a fruiting shade tree.

Ziziphus mistol - The mistol varies greatly in height, it may reach 10 to 15 meters though most individuals have no more than 4 to 9 meters high. Trunk diameter is also variable, it ranges 20 to 60 centimeters. The branches are pubescent, abundant, with spines near the leaves, and arranged in zig-zag. Its foliage is semi-deciduous. Mistol leaves are oval shaped, alternate, entire, with three prominent basal veins, 2–7 cm long and slightly petiolated. It flowers late in spring, from October to December and fructifies from November to march. The fruit is an edible drupe, reddish-hazel coloured, roughly spherical, 1–5 cm long, sweet and sugary, with a distinct bitterness when ripe.

 
 

Ziziphus robertsoniana - It was described in 1996 by Henk Jaap Beentje.