PI. 198. 
FLOWERING DECIDUOUS BRANCHLETS OP THE JUJUBE, ZIZIPHUS JUJUBA. 
Unlike most fruit trees, but more like the grapevine, the jujube bears its flowers and fruit on 
slender branches which are produced each spring. These look like compound leaves, but are true 
branches. In autumn the leaves fall first and leave the bare slender branchlets, which subsequently 
drop of themselves. It remains to be determined what bearing this characteristic has on the 
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. ^ 
