SC - Fruit Query

[Decker, Terry D.]

The fruit is also called a Chinese date.  It's the fruit of an Old World
genus, Ziziphus, most commonly Z. jujuba.

Bear 

> I was browsing through the Tacuinum Sanitatis last night and 
> came across an
> entry of "jujubes", a small fruit (the picture shows 2 people 
> knocking plum
> sized fruits off a tree). Is this a name for some other 
> fruit? I've never
> heard of it before.
> 
> Al Servizio Vostro, e del Sogno
> Lucrezia