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زفيزف لوطسي / زفيزف

Ziziphus lotus (L.) Lam.

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Edibility and Usage

Edibility

Delicious

Edible part

Fruits

Preparation

Dessert
Jam
Raw

Blooming period

March to April

Foraging period

July to August

Seed collection period

September to November

Description

Perenniality

Perennial

Petal colour

Green
Yellow

Leaf type

Entire

Life form

Phanerophyte shrub

Scientifc data

Genus

Ziziphus

Family

Rhamnaceae

Wikidata item

Q405596

GBIF Item

Ziziphus lotus (L.) Lam. (3039418)

References

Paraskeva-Hadjichambi, Demetra. (2006, September 4). Edible Plants of Cyprus (and Greece).
Wikipedia contributors. (2022, February 19). Ziziphus lotus. In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 10:12, August 31, 2022, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ziziphus_lotus&oldid=1072869641
Temperate Plants Database, Ken Fern. temperate.theferns.info. 2022-08-31. <temperate.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Ziziphus+lotus>
Ziziphus lotus (L.) Lam. in GBIF Secretariat (2021). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2022-03-22.(English)
Zohary, Michael. Flora Palaestina. Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, 1972.
Temple, Augusta A. Flowers & Trees of Palestine. Society for promoting Christian knowledge, 1929.
Fernley-Pearson, Thomas. Agroforestry for Palestine. Bustan Qaraaqa Publications, 2010.
Zohary, Michael. “A Vegetation Map of Western Palestine.” The Journal of Ecology, 1947, 1–19.

Citation

Ziziphus lotus (L.) Lam. in Barari platform (2026). Barari Flora Taxonomy. https://barari.org/species/685 accessed via barari.org on 7/21/2026.