20 RED Chinese DATE TREE Edible Fruit Jujube Ziziphus Jujuba Yellow Flower Seeds

DESCRIPTION: NAME: Chinese Red Date Tree OTHER COMMON NAMES: Jujube / Red Date / Chinese Date / Korean Date / Common Jujube / Indian Date SCIENTIFIC NAME: Ziziphus Jujuba syn. Zizyphus Jujuba COLOR: Pale Yellow Flowers PLANT SEEDS: Fall sow seeds or cold stratify BLOOM TIME: Flowers Late Spring - Early Summer HARVEST: Fruit in October HARDINESS ZONE: 6 - 11 PLANT HEIGHT: 20 - 30' (Or pruned to a hedge) PLANT SPACING: 20 - 30' LIGHT REQUIREMENTS: Sun - Part Shade SOIL & WATER PREFERENCES: Average - Dry QUANTITY: 20 Seeds OTHER: Red Date Trees are grown for their edible fruit that has a taste that is similar to an apple & a date. The fruit starts out green & turns to red, wrinkling up when it’s dried. Red Dates are eaten all over the world. They are a popular snack either fresh, dried, or dried & candied. They are made into syrup, tea, juice, jam, honey, canned, smoked, & added to breads & puddings, Ziziphus Jujuba is more cold tolerant than other species, but is