The meaning and symbol of the jujube tree: prosperous, sweet, and early in birth. Jujube tree is a plant of the genus Jujube in the Prunus family. It is a small deciduous tree or a sparse shrub, more than 10 meters high. The bark is brown or gray-brown. The petioles are 1-6 mm long, or up to 1 cm on long branches. They are hairless or hairy. The stipules are sparsely hairy, and the stipule spines are slender and often fall off in the later stages. Flowers are yellow-green, bisexual, glabrous, with short pedicels, solitary or densely formed into axillary cymes. The drupe is oblong or oblong, 2-3.5 cm long and 1.5-2 cm in diameter. It changes from red to reddish-purple when mature. The mesocarp is fleshy, thick and sweet. The seeds are flat and oval, about 1 cm long and 8 mm wide.
Jujube trees grow in mountains, hills or plains below an altitude of 1,700 meters. Widely cultivated. This species is native to China and is often cultivated in Asia, Europe and America.
Jujube is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P. In addition to being eaten fresh, it can often be made into candied dates, red dates, smoked dates, black dates, wine dates, tooth dates and other candied and preserved fruits. It can also be made into date paste. , date noodles, date wine, date vinegar, etc., are raw materials for the food industry.
Fresh dates are richer in vitamins, but they are seasonal and cannot be purchased frequently, and eating too much may damage digestive function. Although the vitamin content of dried dates is reduced, the iron content is increased, and its nutrients are easier to absorb.