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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.
Jujube (UK / ˈdʒuːdʒuːb /; US / ˈdʒudʒub / or / ˈdʒudʒəbiː / [5] ), sometimes jujuba, known by the scientific name Ziziphus jujuba and also called red date, Chinese date, and Chinese jujube, [6] is a species in the genus Ziziphus in the buckthorn family Rhamnaceae. It is often confused with the closely related Indian Jujube, Z ...
Dátiles rellenos are stuffed dates in Spanish cuisine. They can be made with different fillings and are often served as a sweet dish to accompany tea or coffee. Dátiles rellenos de almendras is made by filling dates with marzipan that has been colored and flavored with a little liquor. [1] The filling can be made with ground almonds, sugar ...
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.
Hyphaene thebaica, with common names doum palm (Ar: دوم) and gingerbread tree (also mistakenly doom palm ), is a type of palm tree with edible oval fruit. It is a native to the Arabian Peninsula and also to the northern half and western part of Africa [2] where it is widely distributed and tends to grow in places where groundwater is present.
The tamarind is a long-living, medium-growth tree, which attains a maximum crown height of 25 metres (80 feet). The crown has an irregular, vase -shaped outline of dense foliage. The tree grows well in full sun. It prefers clay, loam, sandy, and acidic soil types, with a high resistance to drought and aerosol salt (wind-borne salt as found in ...
Description. Phoenix sylvestris ranges from 4 to 15 m in height and 40 cm in diameter; not as large as the Canary Island Date Palm, but nearly so, and resembling it. The leaves are 3 m long, gently recurved, on 1 m petioles with acanthophylls near the base. The leaf crown grows to 10 m wide and 7.5 to 10 m tall containing up to 100 leaves.
The variety is planted both for its fruit and for landscaping. [6] [7] The medjool is a distinct landrace, described as producing "large soft fruit, with orange-yellowish flesh, and a mildly rich and pleasing flavor". [8] Israel currently holds more than 60 percent of the global mejhoul market share, making it the largest exporter of mejhoul ...