PL 198. 



FLOWERING DECIDUOUS BRANCHLETS OF THE JUJUBE, ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA. 



Unlike most fruit trees, but more like the grapevine, the jujube bears its flowers and fruit 01 

 slender branches which are produced each spring. These look like compound leaves, but are tru< 

 branches. In autumn the leaves fall first and leave the bare slender branchlets, which subsequentl: 

 drop of themselves. It remains to be determined what bearing this characteristic has on th 

 relation of the fruiting of the jujube to late spring frosts. Photographed (P19661FS) by P. H 

 Dorsett, Chico Field Station, May 17, 1916. Natural size. 



