Chinese Apple
बेरஎளந்தைపెద్దరేగు
Ziziphus mauritiana Lam.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 10 m
- wide
- 7.0 m
Rhamnaceae
Also called Chinee Apple, Buffalo Thorn, Indian jujube
Formerly Sarcomphalus mauritianus
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- Seasonally dry tropicalKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Cape Verde, African Sahara to Sahel to Tanzania, S. Iran to AustraliaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
- Height
- 10 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: Wikipedia 10–12 m; Plants for a Future 10–10 m
- Spread
- 7.0 mRead from Plants for a Future, one source
- Flowers
- YellowRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- 7 °C (USDA zone 11b)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Hottest it survives
- 50 °CRead from Wikipedia, one source
Not known yet: water, heat.
In other languages (12)
- root
- Ber, koko kouli, umsawu
- Chinese
- 印度棗, 台灣大青棗, 滇刺棗
- Finnish
- intianjujuba
- Spanish
- Guinda, capulincillo, ciruela de monte
- Arabic
- سدر هندي, تفاح صيني
- Russian
- Зизифус мавританский
- Indonesian
- Bidara Arab
- Japanese
- イヌナツメ, インドナツメ
- Chinese (China)
- 滇刺枣, 毛叶枣, 印度枣
- Sinhala
- මසං
- Thai
- พุทราอินเดีย
- French
- Pomme-surette, surette
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- 3D model: Ziziphus mauritiana (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.