Ziziphus talanai

Family: Rhamnaceae

Common Name: Balakat

Origin:  native to the Philippines

Reference: PhytoImages

• My pictures are in PhytoImages!
• You can see all 7 photos in PhytoImages if you do a search and put my name in “Owner Name”
• Image at PhytoImages.siu.edu
• This is one of the biggest trees in the farm
• Our caretaker needed to use a long bamboo pole to pluck of a stem so I could get pictures!
• I copied the captions that Pieter Pelser put in PhytoImages
• According to Trees of Tropical Asia, the name Ziziphus came from the classic name for the jujube fruit.
• According to Pinoy Trees, Jesus Christ was crowned with thorns from the Ziziphus jujube.
• The town of Mabalacat, Pampanga was named after this tree.

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