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The date palm is dioecious, having separate male and female plants. They can be easily grown from seed, but only 50% of seedlings will be female and hence fruit-bearing, and dates from seedling plants are often smaller and of poorer quality. Most commercial plantations thus use cuttings of heavily cropping cultivars.
The persimmon ( / pərˈsɪmən /) is the edible fruit of a number of species of trees in the genus Diospyros. The most widely cultivated of these is the kaki persimmon, Diospyros kaki [ 1] – Diospyros is in the family Ebenaceae, and a number of non-persimmon species of the genus are grown for ebony timber. In 2019, China produced 75% of the ...
List of date cultivars. A large number of date cultivars and varieties emerged through history of its cultivation, but the exact number is difficult to assess. Hussain and El-Zeid [ 1] (1975) have reported 400 varieties, while Nixon [ 2] (1954) named around 250. Most of those are limited to a particular region, and only a few dozen have ...
Dates are a stone fruit that grows on trees called date palms. While they can be eaten fresh, they are traditionally eaten dried, which concentrates the fruit’s sugars.
Dates are chewy and sweet stone fruits that have no added sugar. They are often mislabeled as “dried” fruit, but the dates you see in the store are a very ripe version of the date fruit.
The Judean date palm at Ketura, Israel, nicknamed Methuselah. The Judean date palm is a date palm (Phoenix dactylifera) grown in Judea.It is not clear whether there was ever a single distinct Judean cultivar, but dates grown in the region have had distinctive reputations for thousands of years, and the date palm was anciently regarded as a symbol of the region and its fertility.
Ziziphus mauritiana, also known as Indian jujube, [2] Indian plum, [2] Chinese date, [2] Chinee apple, [2] ber [2] and dunks [2] is a tropical fruit tree species belonging to the family Rhamnaceae. It is often confused with the closely related Chinese jujube ( Z. jujuba ), but whereas Z. jujuba prefers temperate climates, Z. mauritiana is ...
The Medjool date (Arabic: تمر المجهول - tamar al-majhūl. Tamar means 'date' and majhūl means 'unknown', from جَهِلَ jahila, 'to not know') [ 1][ 2] also known as Medjoul, Mejhoul or Majhool, is a large, sweet cultivated variety of date ( Phoenix dactylifera ). It is an important commercial variety constituting some 25% of ...