Ziziphus jujuba Mill. Ziziphus mauritiana Lam. Ziziphus mucronata Willd. Rhamnaceae
Ziziphus jujuba Mill.: Ziziphus sativa Gaertn; Ziziphus vulgaris Lam, Rhamnus zizyphus L.
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Synonyms Ziziphus jujuba Mill.: Ziziphus sativa Gaertn; Ziziphus vulgaris Lam, Rhamnus zizyphus L. Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.: Paliurus mairei H. Lév.; Rhamnus jujuba L.; Ziziphus abyssinica Hochst.; Ziziphus jujuba (L.) Gaertn.; Ziziphus jujuba (L.) Lam.; Ziziphus mairei (H. Lév.) Browicz & Lauerer; Ziziphus muratiana Maire; Ziziphus orthacantha DC.; Ziziphus rotundata DC.; Ziziphus tomentosa Poir. Ziziphus mucronata Willd.: Ziziphus adelensis Delile; Ziziphus baclei DC.; Ziziphus bubalina Licht. ex Schult.; Ziziphus madecassus H. Perrier; Ziziphus mitis A. Rich.
R. W. Bussmann (*) Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia e-mail: [email protected] N. Y. Paniagua-Zambrana Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Tbilisi, Georgia Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia G. N. Njoroge Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agricultura and Technology, Nairobi, Kenya M. A. Turi College of Life Science, Anhui Normal University, Wuhu, China H. A. Jan Islamia College Peshawar Jamrod Road, University Campus Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 R. W. Bussmann (ed.), Ethnobotany of the Mountain Regions of Africa, Ethnobotany of Mountain Regions, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-77086-4_174-1
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Local Names Ziziphus abyssinica: Kamba: Kiae, Muae; Lugbara: Lu; Hehe: Mutanula; Acholi: Olango (Kokwaro 2009). Ziziphus mauritiana: Amharic: Kurkura; Borana: Qurgura; Marakwet: Tilomwa, Yilomwa; Pokot: Tlomwo, Tlomwa; Rendile: Qasa; Somali: Geb, Gub; Tugut: Tilolwo; Turkana: Enkalale; Swahili: Mkunazi; Acholi: Lango; Hehe: Mtyanula; English: Dunks, Jujube, Indian cherry, Indian jujube, Indian plum, Chinese date, Chinese apple, Bear tree, Desert apple (Beentje 1994; Gachati 1989; Kokwaro 2009). Ziziphus mucronata: Digo: Mungugune; Girama: Mguguna; Kipsigit: Mimanbiliot; Luo: Lang’o, Longo; Maa: Ol-Oilailke; Marakwet: Nonoiywa; Pokot: Tirokwo; Samburu: Loilalei; Tugut: Ninoiwa; Noiwa; Turkana: Esilang, Amaleri; Sukuma: Ilegero; Swahili: Mkunazi; Sandawi: Tsindimak’o; English: Buffalo thorn, Cape thorn. (Beentje 1994; Gachati 1989; Kokwaro 2009).
Botany and Ecology Ziziphus jujuba: Shrub or mall tree, 3–8 m tall. Spreading-branching spinose plants, branches angularly flexuose, glabrous, red-brown, with paired large acute prickles up to 3 cm long, and with thin erect greenish biseriately, leafy shoots (1–3 on each) like a compound leaf; leaves coriaceous, glabrous, dark green above, shiny, obliquely oblong- ovate to broadly lanceolate usually obtuse, rounded or slightly cordate at base, obtusely and finely dentate, short -petiolate or subsessile, with small stipules at base. Flowers stellate, 3–4 mm in diameter, in dense glomerules on very short peduncles, peduncles, sepals 5, ovate-triangular; petals 5, greenish-yellow, obovate, clawed
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