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Ziziphus rugosa

Botanic Family

Rhamnaceae

Author

Lamarck

Common Names

• Zhou zao (Pinyin)
• Mak-kok (Myanmar)
• Myauk-zi (Myanmar)
• Sammankaw (Myanmar)
• Taw-zi (Myanmar)
• Zi-ganauk (Myanmar)
• Zi-talaing (Myanmar) Ma Jilamyin (Myanmar)
• N Ji-lam-yin (Myanmar)
• Paungbet (Myanmar)

Geographical Habitats

• Bangladesh
• Hainan
• S. & SW. Yunnan - China
• India
• Laos
• Myanmar
• Nepal
• Pakistan
• Sri Lanka
• Thailand
• Vietnam

Natural Habitats

• Forest
• thickets
• montane areas

Flowering Times

• Mar-May (China)
• Dec-Feb (India)

Fruiting Times

• Apr-Jun (China)
• Apr-May (India)

Evergreen woody climber-creeper, large armed,solitary or twin recurved prickles, straggling sometime climbing shrub, shrub or small tree. Serrulated leaves yellow-downy beneath to 150mm x 80mm. Tomentose terminal or axillary panicles, corymbs or racemes of densely pubescent green flowers, no petals. Fruit a black hairy drupe 12mm x 10mm becoming glabrescent, white when ripe.

Further References

• FOC
• APDC
• J.S. Gamble
• The Plant List 2
• BF
• NYBG
• USNH
• Botanicus
• IFV