Names: Zizyphus jujuba; Ziziphus zizyphus.
English: jujube; jujuba; red date; Chinese date; Korean date; Indian date.
French: Jujubier.
Arabic: Nabq, dum, tsal, sadr, zufzuuf, sidr.
Persian: Anab; Annab.
Bulgaria: henap.
Names: Seraiki: Ber.
Botany: southern Asia, Lebanon to Korea; small deciduous tree; thorny branches; leaves shiny-green, three conspicuous veins at the base, finely toothed margin; tolerates a wide range of temperatures and rainfall.
Use: fruit, 400 cultivars; smell fresh and clean; keeps bugs and other insects out of the house.
Culture: a good luck charm for fertility of newly married couples; Japanese tea ceremony; Korea, wood for taepyeongso, a double-reed wind instrument.