TREES

Plant Name:

ZIZIPHUS SPINA-CHRISTII

Description:

 

A fast growing evergreen tree with an irregular rounded crown. The trunk is short with rough, gray-brown bark. Leaves are small, alternate, and ovate to oval, with a rounded apex, dark, shiny green, with stipular spines. Flowers are small, numerous, arranged in clusters, white. The fruit is a globose drupe, fleshy, brown when ripe, edible.

SYNOPSIS
Mature Size / Spread / Form   6 - 18m / Irregular rounded crown
Foliage Color Shiny green / White
Growth Rate Fast
Sunlight tolerance High
Wind tolerance High
Salinity tolerance Medium
Drought tolerance High
Family name RHAMNACEAE