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Ziziphus spina-christi
Also called Syrian Christ Thorn, Christ’s Thorn,
Christ's thorn is a hardy, thorny, evergreen tree or large shrub from desert and dry savanna regions of Africa and western Asia, grown for shade and edible fruit. It needs full sun and very little water, and it tolerates heat and poor soil well.
Ziziphus spina-christi, known as the Christ's thorn jujube, is a thorny and evergreen tree or plant.
It is native to the Western Asia from the Levant and Sinai to Pakistan, the Arabian Peninsula, and northeastern, eastern, and western Africa from Senegal to Somalia, Egypt, and Tanzania. It grows in deserts, semi-deserts, and savannas, often in wadis and washes, on stream and river banks, and wadis and washes where groundwater is available.
The ripe fruits are edible.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Ziziphus spina-christi by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
