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YYou are buying 40 seeds of Jujube Ziziphus.(I am not ship to California)Common Names: Jujube, Chinese Date, Tsao. Related Specie: Indian Jujube (Ziziphus mauritiana). Distant Affinity: Purple Haw (Colubrina texensis), Raisin Tree (Hovenia dulcis).
The jujube is a small, deciduous tree, growing to 40 feet tall in Florida, but smaller in size in California. The naturally drooping tree is graceful, ornamental and often thorny with branches growing in a zig-zag pattern. The wood is very hard and strong. Jujube cultivars vary in size and conformation, with some being very narrow in habit and others being more widespread.
One cultivar, the So, seems to be fairly dwarfing in habit. After 30 years of growth in an average site, trees can be 30 feet tall with a crown diameter of up to 15 feet. Plants send up suckers (often with intimidating spines) from their roots, and these suckers can appear many feet from the mother plant. Currently, these root suckers must be controlled by mowing or hoeing.