History of jujube
Chinese poets spoke about the wonderful jujube in 600 BC. The fruit of the jujube has been used in ancient Chinese medicine for many nutritional remedies for 2500 years. Gerard jujubes were used as a medicinal plant in Europe in the 1600s to treat disorders of the kidneys, lungs and liver.
The Chinese jujube was brought to America by Eastern European immigrants who built the railroad in Arizona in 1900. Hundreds of varieties grafted jojoba are available in China, and many of these trees were imported by the USDA in 1908 and planted at the Experiment Station in Tifton, Georgia for the test, according to Otis Woodard.
Lowell F. Locke of the USDA in 1924, introduced the improved jujube (Chinese date) to the American West, where he was described as "They have a delicious fruit with smooth skin and ivory black fruits. They are eaten skin and all. It was conducted like a peach, more like an apple. I made jams and jellies of them and are also preserved. "Locke described the jujube as cold hardy, late flowering, and almost test gel. The trees are well adapted to dry sandy soils and grow easily without attention.
The Chinese jujube originated in China, Japan and much of Southeast Asia. The tree deciduous grows 25 feet tall, loaded with sharp spines, so that the ages and the spines fall like the crust is formed. The fragrant yellow flowers are small and become in fruits reddish-brown oval slightly larger than oil. The new improved cultivars of jojoba can reach the size of a plum and may be a round or oval, the maturation of a reddish brown. The jujube fruit can be eaten fresh from the tree, even though it is much more green fruit, with base notes of red only in development. In mature and dry nuts on the tree, but in the American southwest, where humidity is high, fruit should be harvested when it occurs color change and then dried in a cold room.
Some gardeners describe as tasting a jujube dates and apples flavored with chocolate. The fruit pulp The jujube is centered around a core containing two seeds. The meat is sweet, soft and yellow, with some cultivars being white at maturity.
After be cured and dried-out locks in a jujube wrinkled delicacy. The fruit is generally treated as grape production in order to maintain consumption at a later time.
The jujube is prized for its delicious fruit flavor, leaves of bright green wax, and the fascinating silhouette of the tree. The leaves turn bright yellow before release after the fall frost.
Jujube trees grow in sandy soils low rating, including those found in the southeast, and trees in flower dry conditions with ease, but some well-placed fertilizer produces amazing results in short time. Many species of jujube he found in use worldwide, including the continents of Asia, Europe and Africa.
Arab Nutritionists lotus leaves used to kill worms and other pests that attack the digestive tract and cause diarrhea. The jujube is native to Spain, France, Italy, Syria and Asia Minor is similar to that of Asia and the jujube has been used in medicine as an element of power in Europe, Asia Minor and Africa. Jujubes in Algeria have been grown and consumed mainly by the Jews of Algeria, the third century to celebrate the New Year.
The Chinese believed that eating the fruit jujube tree could improve a person's endurance and strength, and improved liver function and immune system. They believed that the use of jujube is a bit quiet for a person to act in the fight against allergies, and make a person gain weight.
Nutritionists have discovered that the fruit of the jojoba contains beneficial levels of vitamins A, B2 and C. The jujube also contains minerals necessary for health, such as phosphorus, calcium and iron.
In China the fruit is sold mainly as dried dates and can be found at any grocery store. The fruit is valued as a food and health as a delicacy. You can develop a easy to grow market jujubes this delicacy? Very few fruit trees can be grown that many desirable qualities, such as lack of natural pests, good taste, production heavy, flawless annual crops, requires no fertilizer, thrives in poor soil, 4,000 years of history increasingly in China, and without limitation weather.
About the Author
Patrick A. Malcolm, owner of TyTy Nursery, has an M.S. degree in Biochemistry and has cultivated fruit trees for over three decades.
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