Ziziphus jujubaMill.

Chinese DatesCommon JujubaJujube

WFO wfo-0000430303 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ziziphus jujuba, photographed by Marc Riera
fig. a Marc Riera, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-08 / obs. 204442524
Ziziphus jujuba, photographed by Zinogre
fig. b Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201428190
Ziziphus jujuba, photographed by Zinogre
fig. c Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 201429630
Ziziphus jujuba, photographed by Zinogre
fig. d Zinogre, CC BY-SA 4.0 / obs. 192774553
Ziziphus jujuba, photographed by P Jeganathan
fig. e P Jeganathan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 151696548
Ziziphus jujuba, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 135058607
Ziziphus jujuba, photographed by Jacky Judas
fig. g Jacky Judas, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 103344546
Ziziphus jujuba, photographed by Kim, Hyun-tae
fig. h Kim, Hyun-tae, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 54277957

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 6 botanical countries

Regions where Ziziphus jujuba is native: China North-Central, China Southeast, Inner Mongolia, Korea, Manchuria, Xinjiang China North-CentralChina SoutheastInner MongoliaManchuriaXinjiang Korea
Native distribution of Ziziphus jujuba, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Inner Mongolia CHI
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM
Xinjiang CHX

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 36 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Jububa mediterranea Bubani
  • Mansana arborea J.F.Gmel.
  • Paliurus lucidus Carrière
  • Rhamnus lucida Salisb.
  • Rhamnus mauritiana P.Willemet
  • Rhamnus soporifera Lour.
  • Rhamnus vulgaris Pers.
  • Rhamnus zizyphus L.
  • Ziziphus acidojujuba C.Y.Cheng & M.J.Liu
  • Ziziphus acidojujuba f. granulata C.Y.Cheng & M.J.Liu
  • Ziziphus acidojujuba f. trachysperma C.Y.Cheng & M.J.Liu
  • Ziziphus chinensis Spreng.
  • Ziziphus jujuba f. apyrena C.Y.Cheng & M.J.Liu
  • Ziziphus jujuba f. carnosicalycis C.Y.Cheng & M.J.Liu
  • Ziziphus jujuba var. jujuba
  • Ziziphus mauritiana subsp. orthacantha (DC.) A.Chev.
  • Ziziphus mauritiana var. deserticola A.Chev.
  • Ziziphus mauritiana var. muratiana (Maire) A.Chev.
  • Ziziphus mauritiana var. orthacantha (DC.) A.Chev.
  • Ziziphus melanogona Bojer
  • Ziziphus nitida Roxb.
  • Ziziphus officinarum Medik.
  • Ziziphus poiretii G.Don
  • Ziziphus sativa Gaertn.

and 12 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.