What Varieties of Jujube Trees Are There? The Most Complete Guide to Jujube Tree Varieties
Autumn and winter are a great season for eating winter jujubes. The crisp and sweet winter jujube is deeply loved by people, and there are many winter jujube varieties on the market. So do you know which winter jujubes taste the best? Let's learn about the common winter jujube varieties together below.
1. Moonlight Jujube
Moonlight Jujube has crisp, tender and juicy flesh, with a honey-sweet and refreshing taste. Its sugar content is 30.8%, and its crispness is better than that of winter jujube. It comes to market in mid-August in the north; in southern regions it sprouts in February and comes to market in early June. The fruit development period is about 80 days, making it a rare extremely early-maturing fresh-eating variety that can bear fruit in the same year it is grafted.
2. Zaocuiwang
Zaocuiwang jujube is large, uniform, with tender flesh, crisp and juicy, sweet and sour and tasty, small pit and thick flesh. Its sugar content is as high as 39 percent, and it can bear fruit in the same year it is planted. It is an early-maturing winter jujube variety.
3. Jinsi Xin No. 4 Jujube
Jinsi Xin No. 4 Jujube is crisp and juicy, with high sugar content and delicate flesh. It is currently the fresh-eating red jujube variety with the best sugar content. This variety is called Bingtang jujube in Yunnan, Mid-Autumn Crisp Jujube in Hunan, and Beibu Gulf No. 1 Jujube in Guangxi.
4. Winter Jujube
Winter Jujube is called the "little apple". This jujube tree variety has an average single fruit weight of about 20 g, thin skin and crisp flesh, tender and juicy, sweet and fragrant, and rich in nutrients. This variety has strong adaptability, relatively high and stable yield, and a late fruit ripening period. Its quality is excellent, making it a fine late-maturing fresh-eating variety.
5. Fucuimi Jujube
Fucuimi Jujube is also called Babahong. It has a crisp taste, excellent quality, early fruiting and high yield, and strong adaptability, making it a new fresh-eating jujube variety with relatively strong development potential.. The fruit reaches crisp ripeness in mid-August. The fruit development period is 77 - 85 days.
6. Maya Jujube
Maya Jujube is named because its fruit is long-conical to long-ovoid, round at the bottom and pointed at the top, with the upper part tilted to one side, resembling a horse tooth. Maya Jujube is also called Baimaya. It ripens from late August to early September, earlier than other jujube types.
7. Huping Jujube
The advantages of Huping Jujube are its large canopy, high yield and long lifespan, with an average yield of more than 50 kg per tree. After ripening, the fruit skin is dark red, and the fruit shape is small at the top and large at the bottom, slightly narrower in the middle, shaped like a pot and also like a bottle, hence the name Huping Jujube. Huping Jujube is also a tonic delicacy. Traditional Chinese medicine believes it has effects such as tonifying the middle and boosting qi, nourishing blood and calming the mind, promoting body fluids, moistening the heart and lungs, tonifying the five viscera, treating deficiency and damage, and detoxifying.
8. Xianwang Jujube
Xianwang Jujube, also known as Jinsi Large and Small Jujube, is a type of Jinsi small jujube. The flesh of the fresh jujube is yellow-white, with a relatively firm texture, more juice, and sweetness. The sugar content of the dried jujube is 76.5%, and the drying rate is 70%-78%; the red jujube has thick flesh, a small pit, a good taste, and the fruit rarely cracks.
Jujubes have a unique taste and high nutritional value, and are a kind of fruit deeply loved by men, women, the old and the young. But there are many jujube tree varieties. Which kind of jujube do you like eating most? You are welcome to leave a comment and share!
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