Regi pandu tree
In Barbados, Jamaica and Puerto Rico the tree is naturalized and forms thickets in uncultivated areas. Specimens are scattered about the drier parts of the West Indies, the Bahamas, Colombia and Venezuela, Guatemala, Belize, and southern Florida. It was introduced into Guam about 1850 but is not often planted there or in Hawaii except as an ornamental. It is cultivated to some extent throughout its natural range but mostly in India where it is grown commercially and has received much horticultural attention and refinement despite the fact that it frequently escapes and becomes a pest. The Indian jujube is native from the Province of Yunnan in southern China to Afghanistan, Malaysia and Queensland, Australia. There is a single, hard, oval or oblate, rough central stone which contains 2 elliptic, brown seeds, 1/4 in (6 mm) long. At first the aroma is applelike and pleasant but it becomes peculiarly musky as the fruit ages. Fully ripe fruits are less crisp and somewhat mealy overripe fruits are wrinkled, the flesh buff-colored, soft, spongy and musky. When slightly underripe, the flesh is white, crisp, juicy, acid or subacid to sweet, somewhat astringent, much like that of a crabapple.
#Regi pandu tree skin#
The form may be oval, obovate, round or oblong the skin smooth or rough, glossy, thin but tough, turns from light-green to yellow, later becomes partially or wholly burnt-orange or red-brown or all-red. With sophisticated cultivation, the fruit reaches 2 1/2 in (6.25 cm) in length and 1 3/4 in (4.5 cm) in width. The fruit of wild trees is 1/2 to 1 in (1.25-2.5 cm) long. The 5-petalled flowers are yellow, tiny, in 2's or 3's in the leaf axils.
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On the upper surface, they are very glossy, dark-green, with 3 conspicuous, depressed, longitudinal veins, and there are very fine teeth on the margins. The leaves are alternate, ovate- or oblong-elliptic, 1 to 2 1/2 in (2.5-6.25 cm) long, 3/4 to 1 1/2 in (2-4 cm) wide distinguished from those of the Chinese jujube by the dense, silky, whitish or brownish hairs on the underside and the short, downy petioles. It may be evergreen, or leafless for several weeks in hot summers. It may be a bushy shrub 4 to 6 ft (1.2-1.8 m) high, or a tree 10 to 30 or even 40 ft (3-9 or 12 m) tall erect or wide-spreading, with gracefully drooping branches and downy, zigzag branchlets, thornless or set with short, sharp straight or hooked spines. The plant is a vigorous grower and has a rapidly-developing taproot. Plate XXXV: INDIAN JUJUBE, Zizyphus mauritiana In India it is most commonly known as ber, or bor. In the Philippines it is called manzana or manzanita ("apple" or "little apple") in Malaya, bedara in Indonesia and Surinam, widara in Thailand, phutsa or ma-tan in Cambodia, putrea in Vietnam, tao or tao nhuc. In Venezuela it is ponsigne or yuyubo in Puerto Rico, aprin or yuyubi in the Dominican Republic, perita haitiana in the French-speaking West Indies, pomme malcadi, pomme surette, petit pomme, liane croc chien, gingeolier or dindoulier. In Jamaica it may be called coolie plum or crabapple in Barbados, dunk or mangustine in Trinidad and Tropical Africa, dunks in Queensland, Chinee apple. Other English names are Indian Plum, Indian cherry and Malay jujube. It is often called merely jujube, or Chinese date, which leads to confusion with the hardier species. While the better-known, smooth-leaved Chinese jujube (Ziziphus jujuba Mill.) of the family Rhamnaceae, is of ancient culture in northern China and is widely grown in mild-temperate, rather dry areas, of both hemispheres, the Indian jujube, Z. It is a fast-growing tree with a medium lifespan, that can quickly reach up to 10–40 ft (3 to 12 m) tall.Indian Jujube Index | Search | Home | Morton
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It can form dense stands and become invasive in some areas, including Fiji and Australia and has become a serious environmental weed in Northern Australia. It is now widely naturalised throughout the Old World tropics from Southern Africa through the Middle East to the Indian Subcontinent and China, Indomalaya, and into Australasia and the Pacific Islands. The species is believed to have originated in Indo-Malaysian region of South-East Asia. The fruit's skin is smooth, glossy, thin but tight. When slightly underipe, this fruit is a bit juicy and has a pleasant aroma. It can be oval, obovate, oblong or round, and can be 1-2.5 in (2.5-6.25 cm) long, depending on the variety. Ziziphus mauritiana is a spiny, evergreen shrub or small tree up to 15 m high, with trunk 40 cm or more in diameter spreading crown stipular spines and many drooping branches. Ziziphus mauritiana, also known as Chinese date, ber, Chinee apple, jujube, Indian plum, Regi pandu, Indian jujube, dunks (in Barbados) and masau, is a tropical fruit tree species belonging to the family Rhamnaceae.