Ziziphus nummularia - Wild Jujube

❏ Binomial Name : Ziziphus nummularia (Burm. f.) Wight & Walk.-Arn.

❏ Synonym : Rhamnus microphylla,Ziziphus microphylla, Ziziphus lotus

❏ Family : Rhamnaceae 

❏ Common Name : Wild jujube

❏ Tamil Name : Nari ilantai

❏ Hindi Name : Jhar-beri

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Ziziphus nummularia Botanical Description

Straggling shrub, 2-5 m high; branches divaricate, flexuous, tomentose when young; spines paired, one straight, very sharp, nearly as long as petiole, the other shorter, hooked. Leaves ovate, elliptic or orbicular, oblique or rounded at base, serrate at margin, acute or obtuse at apex, 1-2.5 x 0.5-1.8 cm, glabrous or tomentose above, tomentose to white-wooly beneath, 3-nerved at base. Inflorescences axillary 10-20 flowered cymes, short-peduncled or not. Flowers 4-5 mm across. Calyx lobes deltoid, acute, keeled nearly to base, 1.7-2.2 mm long. Petals obovate-spatulate, rounded or truncate at apex, 1-1.5 mm long. Stamens 0.8-1.2 mm long. Disc faintly 10-lobed. Ovary 2-loculed; style 2-cleft. Drupes globose, 0.8 cm, woody, glabrous, shining and black-red when ripe; seeds 1 or 2 compressed, black. Fl. &Fr.: August-September.

Ziziphus nummularia Medicinal uses

❀ The fruit is either eaten fresh, pickled, dried or made into confectionery.

❀ The juice can be made into a refreshing drink

❀ The leaves of Z. nummularia provide excellent fodder for livestock.

❀ Dried fruit used medicinally as astringent in bilious affliction in India.

❀ The leaves are used to treat scabies and other skin diseases

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