Ziziphus spina-christi
| Ziziphus spina-christi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rhamnaceae |
| Genus: | Ziziphus |
| Species: | Z. spina-christi |
| Binomial name | |
| Ziziphus spina-christi (L.) Desf. | |
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Ziziphus spina-christi, the Christ's Thorn Jujube, is an evergreen tree native to northern and tropical Africa and southern and Western Asia. It grows in Israel in valleys up to an elevation of 500m.[1] By some traditions, it was the tree from which Jesus' Crown of Thorns was made.[2]
The ripe fruits are edible,[3] and the flowers are an important source of honey in Eritrea and Yemen.[4]
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- ↑ Zohary M. Flora Palaestina. II. Jerusalem: The Israel Academy of Science and Humanities; 1972. pp. 307–308 cited in Amots Dafni, Shay Levy, and Efraim Lev, The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel, doi:10.1186/1746-4269-1-8, PMC 1277088, PMID 16270941
- ↑ "Ziziphus spina-christi". Flowersinisrael.com. Retrieved 2015-03-09.
- ↑ "Nutritional study on Ziziphus spina-christi". Eden-foundation.org. Retrieved 2014-06-11.
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External links
- The ethnobotany of Christ's Thorn Jujube (Ziziphus spina-christi) in Israel
- Thorns of Ziziphus spina-christi
- Flowers in Israel - Ziziphus spina-christi