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Ziziphus jujuba is an Asian tree that produce edible 1 seeded fruits. This one is the wild form, cultivated varieties have larger, often not rounded fruits.
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Ziziphus nummularia is a tall shrub of a small tree that grows in East Africa, Arabia and east to Pakistan. In Israel it was considered extinct for many years, but in 1991 we founnd 7 trees in Eilat mountains.
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Ziziphus nummularia is a very rare small tree, occurring in Israel in 1 site only. It is widespread from India to east Africa.
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Ziziphus nummularia is a very rare small tree, occurring in Israel in 1 site only. It is widespread from India and Pakistan to east Africa.
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Ziziphus nummularia is a very rare small tree, occurring in Israel in 1 site only. It is widespread from India to east Africa. The fruits are tasty and edible, sweet and sour.
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Ziziphus nummularia is a very rare small tree, occurring in Israel in 1 site only. It is widespread from India to east Africa. The fruits are tasty and edible, sweet and sour.
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Christ's Thorn (Ziziphus spina-christi) is an East Mediterranean - Saharo-Arabian species. Its relatives grow mainly in Africa and a few in S Asia. If u look carefully u can see two spines in each joint - one is erect and the other is hooked. According to Christain tradition this is the plant that was used for Christ's thorny crown. Actually it is probably wrong because the tree doesn't grow spontaneously in Jerusalem, it is found only in the lowlands, either westwards towards the coast or eastwards towards the Rift Valley (Dead Sea). In this picture u can see the flowers, the small-globose fruits are edible, either fresh or dried.
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Ziziphus spina-christi (Christ's Thorn) is a widespread tree in Israel, the Middle East and eastern Africa. As you can see in this picture, in Israel it forms a savannah-like vegetation along the Rift Valley.
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this shrub is common along the upper Jordan river valley and in the adjascent regions, such as the Upper Galilee where this pic was taken. The species has disjunct distribution appearing again in Iberia (thanks to Ferran J Lloret for the info) and Morrocco in the west Med. region.